Lot 205
  • 205

Marie Vassilieff

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Marie Vassilieff
  • Poster for Jean Borlin's Ballets Suédois
  • signed in Latin l.m.
  • watercolour with pencil and gouache on paper
  • image size: 50 by 35cm, 19 3/4 by 13 3/4 in.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Nina Hamnett
Thence by descent to the previous owner

Condition

There is a horizontal crease along the middle of the sheet, which is a little yellowed. There are some spots of staining visible to the top right hand side of the inner frame edge and some other spots of staining elsewhere,e.g. below the left elbow of the figure. The colours are fairly bright. Held in a modern white painted frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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