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Property from an Historic British Collection

Ker-Xavier Roussel

Autoportrait - recto; Deux nymphes auprès d'un arbre - verso

Auction Closed

March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Historic British Collection

Ker-Xavier Roussel

1867 - 1944

Autoportrait - recto

Deux nymphes auprès d'un arbre - verso


signed k.x r. (lower right - recto)

sanguine on paper (recto); pencil on paper (verso)

31.6 by 24cm., 12½ by 9½in.

Framed: 44 by 37cm., 17⅜ by 14⅝in.

Executed in Switzerland in circa 1916-17.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Roussel catalogue raisonné being prepared by Jacques Roussel, Mathias Chivot & Nicolas Langlois.

Estate of the artist
JPL Fine Arts, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1981
Amsterdam, Van Wisselingh Gallery, 1976, no. 25
London, JPL Fine Arts, Bonnard, Roussel, Vuillard: Drawings, Watercolours & Pastels, 1981
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