Lot 108
  • 108

Robert Delaunay

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Robert Delaunay
  • NATURE MORTE PORTUGAISE
  • signed R. Delaunay (lower right); inscribed Portugal and dated 1916 on the margin

  • gouache, watercolour and coloured crayon on paper laid down on board

  • image size: 22.7 by 32.8cm., 8 7/8 by 12 7/8 in.
  • sheet size: 38.8 by 43.9cm., 15 1/4 by 17 1/4 in.

Provenance

Habasque Collection, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 1945, lot 374
Carola Giedion-Welcker, Zurich
Sale: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 23rd-25th June 1982, lot 158
Private Collection, Switzerland
Sale: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 6th June 2008, lot 24
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Mostra di Robert e Sonia Delaunay, 1960

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper laid down on board, held in the mount with four photo corners. Apart from several minor vertical flattened creases, some faint specks of foxing and some minor studio dirt mainly to the margins of the sheet (not visible when framed), this work is in good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate, although slightly lighter in the original.
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