ROGER DE LA FRESNAYE | Paysan à la bouteille

Paul Éluard, Paris
Paul Martin, Paris
Lionel Prejger, Paris
Galerie Jacques Benador, Geneva
Private Collection, Chicago
Andrée Stassart, Liège
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach
Acquired from the above on January 10, 1987

Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Roger de la Fresnaye, 1950, no. 168

Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye, Connecticut, 1969, no. 353, illustrated p. 212

This work is in good condition. Executed on gray wove paper. The sheet is consistently time stained overall. The work is float mounted and hinged at upper left, upper right, and at several places on the verso in the upper register. There is a flattened crease extending from the top left corner to the bottom left edge. There are nicks to the sheet along all four edges. The medium is fresh and well preserved. Residue from a previous mounting along all four edges. There is a light handling crease at upper left. Otherwise, fine.
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