Property from an Historic British Collection
Ker-Xavier Roussel
Autoportrait - recto; Deux nymphes auprès d'un arbre - verso
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October 17, 02:33 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Historic British Collection
Ker-Xavier Roussel
1867 - 1944
Autoportrait - recto
Deux nymphes auprès d'un arbre - verso
signed k.x r. (lower right - recto)
sanguine on paper (recto); pencil on paper (verso)
31.6 by 24 cm. 12½ by 9½ in.
Framed: 44 by 37 cm. 17⅜ by 14⅝ in.
Executed in Switzerland in circa 1916-17.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Roussel catalogue raisonné being prepared by Jacques Roussel, Mathias Chivot & Nicolas Langlois.
Estate of the artist
JPL Fine Arts, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1981
Amsterdam, Van Wisselingh Gallery, Ker-Xavier Roussel, 1867-1944 : paintings, pastels and drawings, 1976, no. 25, listed (dated 1917)
London, JPL Fine Arts, Bonnard, Roussel, Vuillard: Drawings, Watercolours & Pastels, 1981, no. 21, illustrated (titled Auto-portrait de K.-X. Roussel and dated circa 1905)