ALBERT PÉNOT | La femme chauve-souris

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 GBP

Sold

137,500 GBP

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Description

Albert Pénot
La femme chauve-souris
signed A. Penot (lower right)
oil on canvas
100 by 60cm., 39 by 23½in.

Provenance

Private collection, France (by 1912)

Exhibited

Paris, Salon des Artistes français, 1912, no. 1463 (as Premier miroir)

Literature

Patrick Bade, Femme fatale: images of evil and fascinating women, London, 1979, p. 123, no. 30, catalogued & illustrated (as Bat Woman); also illustrated on the back cover

Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1890.