Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
A) Ursus and Homo in a woodland clearing B) Figure on a cliff
No reserve
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October 22, 05:19 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 USD
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Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
1859 - 1939
A) Ursus and Homo in a woodland clearing
B) Figure on a cliff
A) Point of the brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white;
signed, lower left: G Rochegrosse
B) Black and gray wash over black chalk, heightened with white;
signed with the artist's initials, lower left: GR
A) 278 by 186 mm; 11 by 7⅜ in.
B) 152 by 152 mm; 6 by 6 in.
B) With Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris, by 1983,
where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH
where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH
The sheet depicting Ursus and Homo in a woodland clearing is an illustration by Rochegrosse for Victor Hugo's L'Homme qui rit, which was first published in 1869.