Lot 112
  • 112

Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Augustin de Saint-Aubin
  • sheet of studies of nude young women
  • Black lead;
    bears attribution in brown ink on old mount: aug. St aubin del.

Provenance

Baron Pichon;
J.P. Heseltine (L.1507);
Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 April 1967, lot 163;
with Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam;
Winslow and Anna Ames (L.2602a)

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Bernard Houthakker, Master Drawings, 1968, no. 56

Condition

Unframed. Laid down on old blue paper mount. The lower edge uneven. Some light foxing but otherwise the condition fine, the chalk strong.
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Catalogue Note

The 1967 Sotheby's sale included six other studies of female nudes, all with the same provenance. They probably came from a sketchbook which may have been drawn in 1780-5 and are unusually intimate works.