The Sleep of Reason | A Private Collection of Surrealist Art Online
The Sleep of Reason | A Private Collection of Surrealist Art Online
The Sleep of Reason: A Private Collection of Surrealist Art Online
FÉLIX LABISSE | LA MAIN
Lot Closed
May 20, 04:06 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FÉLIX LABISSE (1905 - 1982)
LA MAIN
Signed Labisse. (lower right)
Gouache, brush and ink and pen and ink on paper
9⅝ by 7½ in. (24.4 by 19 cm)
Framed: 17⅝ by 15½ in. (44.8 by 39.4 cm)
Executed circa 1955.
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Private Collection, Belgium (and sold: Sotheby's, Amsterdam, September 6, 2005, lot 353)
Gallery of Surrealism, New York
Acquired from the above on October 2, 2005
This work is a study for an unrealized invitation to the opening of an exhibition at the Cinémathèque française at the Municipal Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris entitled 60 Years of Cinema, Exhibition—Projections in 1955 (see image 5).