Modern Art Online including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

Modern Art Online including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 94. Homme costumé; Femme costumée.

Property from a Private Collection, Ireland

Jean Carzou

Homme costumé; Femme costumée

Lot Closed

May 4, 02:41 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Ireland

Jean Carzou

1907 - 2000

Homme costumé

Femme costumée


Femme: signed Carzou (lower left)

Homme: signed Carzou (lower right)

Ripolin on white metal sheets

each: 145.5 by 49cm., 57¼by 19¼in.

Framed (each): 155 by 57½cm., 61 by 22⅝in.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Jean-Marie Carzou.

Sold to benefit the Child Protection Centre, Paris (1958)
Private Collection, France (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection, France (by descent from the above. Sold: Christie’s, Paris, 24th May 2006, lot 173)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
"French Art from Kitchen on View Here", in: Herald Tribune, New York, 7th October 1958, p. 2
S. Preston, "Special Occasions, A Memorial Show--Here and There in the Range of Contemporary Painting, The Vanity of Versality", in: The New York Times, New York, 12th October 1958, p. 18
"Keeping up with the Joneses in France", in: She, London, November 1958, illustrated in colour