Lot 129
  • 129

JULIO GONZÁLEZ | Étude pour 'La Danseuse à la palette'

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Julio González
  • Étude pour 'La Danseuse à la palette'
  • pen and ink and pencil on paper
  • 24.6 by 16cm., 9 5/8 by 6 1/4 in.
  • Executed circa 1934.

Provenance

Carmen Martinez & Viviane Grimminger, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in early 1990

Literature

Josette Gibert, Julio González, Dessins, projets pour sculptures figures, Paris, 1975, n.n., illustrated p. 88

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount at the upper two corners and floating in the mount. The right edge is deckled. The sheet is lightly time stained and there is a notable variation in colour across the lower right corner, visible in the printed catalogue. There are handling marks to the edges and the background, probably studio. Otherwise this work is in very good overall condition.
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