Lot 227
  • 227

Félix Vallotton

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Félix Vallotton
  • Les deux apôtres "Ma religion vaut la tienne."Dos de couverture du TEMOIN, no. 4, 9 novembre 1906
  • inscrit le témoin tel que, cliché noir (au dos)
  • encre sur papier
  • 31,5 x 24,5 cm; 12 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.

Exhibited

Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Marseille, Musée Cantini, Le très singulier Vallotton, 2001, no. 18, illustré p.19

Literature

Ashley St-James, Vallotton, dessinateur de presse, Paris, 1979, no. 182
Jean-Paul Morel, Vallotton, dessinateur de presse, Lausanne, 2002, illustré p. 36

Condition

Executed on off-white laid paper, not laid down. The sheet is taped to the mount at the upper edge. There are 18 artist's pinholes. There is a folding mark running vertically along the right edge. Apart from some scattered very light spots of foxing, this work is in good condition overall.
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