Lot 113
  • 113

JULIO GONZÁLEZ | Maternité

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Julio González
  • Maternité
  • signed with the artist's initials J.G. and dated 23-1-41 (lower right)
  • pen and ink and wash on paper
  • 25 by 13.5cm., 9 7/8 by 5 3/8 in.
  • Executed on 23rd January 1941.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, Madrid, 28th November 1991, lot 5
Private Collection, Switzerland (sale: Sotheby's, London, 30th June 1993, lot 9)
Sale: Binoche & Godeau, Paris, 27th November 1994, lot 17
Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris
Acquired by the present owner in Italy circa 2005

Exhibited

Yverdon, Hotel de Ville, Sette pionieri della scultura moderna, 1954, n.n.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Berguender der Mondernan Plastik, 1954, n.n.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Julio González, 1955, no. 0710
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Julio González, 1955, n.n.

Literature

Josette Gibert, Julio González, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Paris, 1975, illustrated p. 81

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and attached to the backing board intermittently. The upper right and lower edges of the sheet are deckled and the left edge is unevenly cut.There are some faint foxing spots visible to the woman's dress and some faint discolouration to the lower edge. This work is in overall very good condition.
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