Lot 175
  • 175

Victor Brauner

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • Victor Brauner
  • Sans titre
  • monogramed VB (lower right); inscribed Je vous envoie les veux les plus mythologiques et mon amitié, signed VICTOR BRAUNER and dated Decembre 1944 (on the reverse)
  • watercolour and ink on paper on a double page
  • 14.1 x 9.5 cm; 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.

Provenance

Dora Maar, Paris (by descent and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Derniers souvenirs de Dora Maar, May 26 & 27, 1999, lot 47)
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, illustrated in the catalogue p. 25, listed p. 35

Condition

Executed on a piece of folded cream wove paper, attached to the mount in two places at the upper corners, not laid down and floating in the mount. Upper and right edges are slightly deckled. There is some very minor surface skinning towards the upper part of the left edge. Otherwise this work is in very good original condition.
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