Lot 4
  • 4

Pierre Bonnard

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pierre Bonnard
  • Deux élégantes dans un jardin
  • Pen and black ink and pencil on calque
  • 10 3/4 by 8 5/8 in.
  • 27.3 by 21.9 cm
  • Drawn circa 1891.

Provenance

Madame Jean Floury (née Terrasse), until 1986
Private collection, Paris, until 2000

Condition

Pen and black ink and pencil on calque. Hinged in two places along the top edge. Right-most 1/4 inch of the sheet is darkened. Small loss in the lower left corner. Mat and light stain. Handling creases throughout. Hard crease extending left to right across the upper right corner; two additional hard creases extending diagonally from the center left edge across the sheet below the picture plane.
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