Lot 239
  • 239

Félix Vallotton

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

Description

  • Félix Vallotton
  • Coppée prie "Merci mon Dieu, on peut enfin tuer en votre nom!" (i)Couverture du CRI DE PARIS, 26 août 1900"Et puis zut à la fin!... " (ii)Couverture du CRI DE PARIS, 24 juin 1900
  • inscriptions de Félix Vallotton (en haut à gauche) et (en bas) (i)

    inscriptions de Félix Vallotton (en haut à droite) et (en bas) (ii)
  • 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. 94 (i), no. 90 (ii)
Jean-Paul Morel, Vallotton, dessinateur de presse, Lausanne, 2002, illustré p. 27 (i), p. 43 (ii)

Condition

Executed on off-white laid paper, not laid down. The sheet is taped to the overmount at the upper edge. There are 13 artist's pinholes along the edges. Apart from some light time-staining along the edges, this work is in very good original condition (ii). Executed on off-white laid paper, not laid down. There are 10 artitst's pinholes. There is a very light 1 cm. crease in the lower right section of the right edge and a very minor spot of foxing in the upper left quadrant. Apart from some light handling marks, possibly due to the artist himself, this work is in very good original condition (i).
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