Yves Saint Laurent – Pierre Bergé : Une Collection Intime

Attributed to Hippolyte Picot

Portrait of a man in profile

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January 30, 01:15 PM GMT

Estimate

500 - 700 EUR

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Description

Attributed to Hippolyte Picot, after Jacques-Louis David

Portrait of a man in profile, said to be Saint-Estève père, formerly presumed to be a self-portrait by David (recto); Study for a landscape (verso)

Black chalk on paper (recto); brown lavish (verso)

Inscribed on the mount S^te Estève Père, d'après Louis David

Sheet: 186 x 249 mm; 7⅜ by 9¾ in.

Mount: 271 x 210 mm; 10⅝ by 8¼ in.

Anonymous sale, Couturier-Nicolaÿ, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 27 April 1994, lot 58;

Former Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection.

L.-A. Prat and P. Rosenberg, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 2002, tome I, p. 173, fig. 155a, repr.

The composition is after the drawing by Jacques-Louis David, offered by Christie's in 2009 during the collection sale Yves Saint-Laurent et Pierre Bergé (Christie's, Paris, 25 February 2009, lot 77).

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