Master Drawings from a Distinguished European Collection

/

Lot 77
  • 77

Aristide Maillol

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Log in to view results
bidding is closed

Description

  • Aristide Maillol
  • marie

  • Red chalk heightened with touches of white chalk, on grey paper

Provenance

Stamped with the artist's monogram (L.1852b);
Galerie Dina Vierney, Paris, where purchased in February 1964 by
José Luis and Beatrice Plaza, Caracas,
by whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 9 December 1997, lot 364, where bought by the present owner

Exhibited

Caracas, Centro Cultural Consolidado, Marcas y Trazos del Dibujo- 44 Maestros Modernos, 1994, reproduced (as Marie, 1936)

Catalogue Note

Aristide Maillol's sanguine drawings are amongst the finest examples of sculpture studies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  According to the label on the back of the frame from the 1994 Caracas exhibition, the drawing dates from 1936.  The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Olivier and Bertrand Lorquin.