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Christian Bérard

Le joueur de flûte

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 EUR

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Christian Bérard


Le joueur de flûte


1937

Oil on canvas mounted on panel

251 x 193 cm ; 98 ⅞ x 76 in.

Count and Countess Jean de Polignac, commissioned to the artist for the dining room of their hôtel particulier on rue Barbet-de-Jouy in Paris

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Piasa, Paris, 4 December 1998, lot 12

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Private collection, France

Christian Bérard au théâtre de la vie, Palais Lumière, Évian, 5 February - 22 May 2022

Christian Bérard, Excentrique Bébé, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Paloma, Monaco, 8 July - 16 October 2022 

For a photograph of the painting in the dining room of the hôtel particulier of Count and Countess Jean de Polignac :

Vogue, 15 March 1938, p. 116

Jacques Wilhelm, "La peinture murale, décor architectural", Art et Industrie, 1946, p. 57

Boris Kochno, Christian Berard, Paris, 1987, for a drawing p. 52 and p. 53 

Christian Bérard (1902 - 1949) au théâtre de la vie, exhibition catalogue, Palais Lumière, Evian, 5 February - 22 May 2022, reproduced p. 190

Christian Bérard, Excentrique Bébé, exhibition catalogue, NMNM - Villa Paloma, Monaco, 7 August - 16 October 2022, p. 96 and reproduced p. 97