Lot 72
  • 72

Aloïse

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 CHF
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Description

  • Aloïse
  • Reine Victoria dans le Manteau Impérial Pontifical- rectoLe Soleil va baiser le sphinx- verso
  • Unten links bzw. oben links betitelt
  • Bleistift, Aquarell und Farbstift auf Papier
  • 57.5 x 44 cm (Lichtmass)
Entstanden 1941-51.

Provenance

Dr. Jacqueline Porret-Forel, Chigny 
Compagnie de l'Art Brut, Paris
André Breton (erworben an obiger Auktion um 1948)
Calmels-Cohen, Paris, Collection d’André Breton, 14.04.2003, Nr. 4024

Exhibited

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 1991

Literature

André Breton, Le surréalisme et la peinture, Paris 1965, S. 317, abgebildet
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, Ausstellungskatalog, Paris 1991, S. 481, S. 434, abgebildet
Los Angeles County Museum, Parallel Vision, Los Angeles 1992, S. 101
Auktionskatalog, Calmels-Cohen, Collection d'André Breton, Paris 2003, Nr. 4024
Dr. Jacqueline Porret-Forel/Céline Muzelle, Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964), Catalogue raisonné électronique, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft SIK-ISEA/Fondation Aloïse, Nr. 94534.01/02, abgebildet (in Farbe)

Condition

Work not unframed. Recto: Minuscule pin holes in both upper corners. Papier creasing slightly. Minor tear of ca. 1.5 cm to the centre of the left edge (visible on both sides). Faint abrasion to the right of Reine Victoria's cheek and a scratch on the paper. Paper creased to the left of the lower centre, minor paint losses. Good condition. Verso: Minuscule pinholes along the upper edge. Scattered scratches. Minor tear of ca. 1.5 cm to the centre of the right edge (visible on both sides). Minor paint losses. Good condition.
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