L12112

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Lot 200
  • 200

Jean Pougny

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean Pougny
  • Étagère
  • stamped with the artist's studio stamp t.l.; further authenticated by the artist's wife, Ksenia Boguslavskaya on the reverse with date 8-12-1966
  • oil on paper with collage laid on cardboard
  • 50 by 41cm, 19 3/4 by 16in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Brussels

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Coard, Pougny: Oeuvres de jeunesse et oeuvres choisies, 1959, Cat. No.30

Literature

H.Berninger, Jean Pougny 1892-1956: Catalogue de l'oeuvre, vol II, Zurich, 1992, no.802, illustrated p.208

Condition

The sheet has been laid down on board. There is a repaired tear in the top right corner and another in the top left edge, There is a layer of surface dirt and some light surface scratches. There is a crease running across the bottom third of the work. Held in a moulded plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

This work was executed in 1945-1946.