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Françoise Gilot

Les Marionnettes

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private American Collection

Françoise Gilot

b.1921


Les Marionnettes

signed F. Gilot. (lower left); dated 1955 and titled (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

45⅝ by 28¾ in.

116 by 73 cm.

Executed in 1956.

Vincent Mann Gallery, New Orleans (acquired directly from the artist circa 2000)

Acquired from the above on 20 February 2010 by the present owner

Mel Yoakum, Françoise Gilot and Dina Vierny, Françoise Gilot, Monograph 1940-2000, Lausanne, 2000, n.n., p. 135, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, n.d.
New Orleans, Vincent Mann Gallery, Collection privée: Early Works by Françoise Gilot 1940-1960, 2010