Lot 232
  • 232

Félix Vallotton

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Félix Vallotton
  • Déroulède. "Le puceau d'Angoulême" (i)Couverture du CRI DE PARIS, 15 octobre 1899"Baggessen" (ii)Couverture du CRI DE PARIS, 14 janvier 1900
  • inscriptions de Félix Vallotton (en haut à droite) et (en bas) (i)
  • chaque dessin : encre sur papier
  • chaque dessin : 26 x 20 cm; 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.

Exhibited

Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Marseille, Musée Cantini, Le très singulier Vallotton, 2001, hors catalogue (i & ii)

Literature

Ashley St-James, Vallotton, dessinateur de presse, Paris, 1979, no. 73 (i), no. 79 (ii)
Jean-Paul Morel, Vallotton, dessinateur de presse, Lausanne, 2002, illustré p. 24 (i)

Condition

Executed on off-white laid paper, not laid down. The sheet is taped to the overmount at the upper edge. There is a 1 cm flattened crease in the lower right corner and a 2 cm one in the upper section of the right edge, both visible to a close inspection. There is a slight time staining, mostly along the edges. This work is in good oiriginal condition (i). Executed on off-white laid paper, not laid down. The sheet is taped to the overmount at the upper edge. There are 36 artist's pinholes along the edges. There is a 0.5 cm tear in the centre of the lower edge. Apart from some handling marks probably inherent to the artistic process, and a slight time-staining especially along the edges, this work is in good original condition (ii).
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