Vera Rockline

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

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Description

Vera Rockline
La Terrasse de Café
signed in Latin l.r.; further stamped with the 1975 Retrospective stamp and bearing the remnants of the exhibition label on the stretcher
oil on canvas
62 by 51cm, 24 1/2 by 20in.
Executed in 1921-1922

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Barreiro, Exposition Rétrospective Véra Rockline: peintures, pastels, dessins 1919-1934, November 1934, no.14
Paris, Galerie Jean Battais, Rétrospective Véra Rockline 1896-1934, 22 May - 12 June 1975, no.10

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Exposition Rétrospective Véra Rockline: peintures, pastels, dessins 1919-1934, Paris: Galerie Barreiro, 1934, no.14 listed
Exhibition catalogue Rétrospective Véra Rockline 1896-1934, Paris: Galerie Battais, 1975, no.10 illustrated b/w; listed under works from 1921-1925

Catalogue Note

Vera Rockline arrived in France in 1919, first staying with her mother’s family in the Bourgogne before settling in Paris in 1921. She lived in an apartment at 12 rue de Hambourg, not far from Montmartre and the centre of the quartier russe. As Paul Morand, the Russian-born French author and witty chronicler of Parisian life in the 1920s and 1930s wrote in his Lettres de Paris, 1923 ‘The Russians are everywhere. It’s been months now, they left Berlin – too expensive, Constantinople – too Turkish, Belgrade – too melancholic, and so they are here. At night, Montmartre is entirely Russian.’