Lot 53
  • 53

Red Grooms b. 1937

Estimate
1,800 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Red Grooms
  • Sarah Bernhardt in the Role of L'Aiglon
  • signed Red Grooms and dated 76  (lower right)
  • ink on paper
  • 24 by 19 1/2 in.
  • 61 by 49.5 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Red Grooms: A Retrospective, June 21, 1985 - October 26, 1986, no. 91; this exhibition travelled to the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville.

Catalogue Note

L'Aiglon was a play about Napoleon's son, with Bernhardt taking the lead role in the 1900 production.