Lot 351
  • 351

Robert Michel

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Robert Michel
  • Rhinoplast-bild: eins (Rhinoplast picture: one)
  • signed with the artist's monogram, dated 32/33 (lower right) and titled (upper left)
  • gouache, pen and ink, fabric collage and pencil on paper laid down on board
  • 73 by 75.9cm., 28¾ by 30in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the parents of the present owner circa 1970s

Exhibited

Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Museum, Bauhaus, 1981
Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Museum, Cosmic Images in the Art of the 20th Century, 1984, no. 91

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on a sheet of paper whose edges are superimposed by canvas strips, laid down on board which is in turn laid down on a composite board. The sheet is slightly time-stained and there are some very minor foxing marks, the most prominent of which is to the bottom of the left cylinder. Otherwise this work is in good condition.
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