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Lot 184
  • 184

Pierre-Louis Flouquet

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pierre-Louis Flouquet
  • PROJET POUR UNE AFFICHE
  • signed Flouquet Pierre and dated 1920 (lower left)
  • gouache on paper
  • 133 by 85cm., 52 1/4 by 33 1/2 in.

Provenance

E.L.T. Mesens, Belgium
Private Collection, Belgium

Exhibited

Brussels, Musée d'Art Moderne, Avant-garde en Belgique 1917-1929, 1992, no. 335 

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, and stapled to a cream board along all four edges. All four edges are unevenly cut. There are artist's pinholes along each edges. There is some creasing to the sheet, particulary to the lower third. There is some paint abrasion in places, mainly to the blue and black pigments, which is visible in the catalogue illustration. There are some very small tears to the extreme lower edge. Otherwise, this work is in overall fair condition.
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