Lot 23
  • 23

Roger de La Fresnaye

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Roger de la Fresnaye
  • L'Officier au Bonnet de Police
  • Signed R. de la Fresnaye and dated Sept 17. (lower right)
  • Pen and ink and wash over pencil on paper
  • 12 by 7 5/8 in.
  • 30.5 by 19.5 cm.
  • Executed in September 1917.

Provenance

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Julien Levy Gallery, New York
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, February 16, 1950, lot 5)
S. Ullmann
Argosy, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Detroit, Institute of Art, Selected Exhibition of the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Collection, 1937, no. 154, titled Zouave

Literature

Paul Chadourne, "Notes sur Roger de La Fresnaye", Cahiers d'Art, vol. 3, no. 8, 1928, illustrated p. 320
Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye, Neuchâtel, 1969, no. 250, illustrated p. 186

Condition

The sheet has been laid down onto a piece of card. The work is in generally good condition aside from some minor toning throughout.
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