The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Numa Desroches
Vue du Palais d'Henry Christophe à Sans-Souci
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January 19, 07:25 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Numa Desroches
1802 - 1880
Vue du Palais d'Henry Christophe à Sans-Souci
signed N. Desroches, titled and inscribed (lower center)
watercolor and pen and ink on paper
overall: 36 by 36 in.
25.4 by 25.4 cm.
Executed circa 1807-20.
Private Collection, Haiti
Harry Bull, New York (acquired from the above in 1936)
André Wauters Gallery, New York (acquired from the above by 1978)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1986)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Milwaukee Art Center; New Orleans Museum of Art, Haitian Art, 1978-79, no. 10, p. 47, illustrated
William Seabrook, "The Lighter Side of Primitive Art," Town & Country, vol. 92, issue 4183, December 1937, pp. 94-5, illustrated in color
Selden Rodman, Artists in Tune with their World: Masters of Popular Art in the Americas and their Relation to the Folk Tradition, New York, 1982, no. 123, p. 107, illustrated
Selden Rodman, Where Art is Joy: Haitian Art: The First Forty Years, New York, 1988, no. 13, p. 37, illustrated in color
Veerle Poupeye, Caribbean Art, New York, 1998, no. 16, p. 37, illustrated