Lot 540
  • 540

Bernard Boutet de Monvel

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Bernard Boutet de Monvel
  • Portrait de vieille paysanne assise devant une port: A Double-Sided Drawing
  • signed Bernard.B.de Monvel, dated Juilliet 97 and inscribed Memoirs lower right
  • watercolor, pen and black ink over black chalk, heightened with gouache on paper (recto); black chalk on paper (verso)
  • sight: 21 1/4 by 18 1/2 in.
  • 54 by 47 cm
  • Executed in 1897.

Provenance

W.M. Brady & Co., New York

Condition

Not examined out of the frame. Sheet is in excellent condition. Ready to hang.
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