Lot 37
  • 37

Alphonse Mucha

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alphonse Mucha
  • Study for Monte carlo
  • signed Mucha lower right
  • crayon on paper laid on board
  • 51 by 40.7cm., 20 by 16in.

Provenance

Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg
Martin Cohen, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1974)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2007, lot 850
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, Drawings from Georgia Collections, 19th and 20th Centuries, 1981, no. 31

Condition

The upper edge of the sheet has been laid down on archival card. Apart from some yellowing, scattered stains, notably to the lower and upper left corners and a diagonal stain running through the centre of the composition, and scattered foxing, the sheet is in fair condition, and the work exhibits fine detail and strong line.
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