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Guy Pène du Bois

Lady in Bed

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March 17, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Guy Pène du Bois

1884 - 1958

Lady in Bed

signed Guy Pène du Bois. and dated 1905 (lower right); bears inscription (on the reverse)

oil on board

12 by 9 in.

30.5 by 22.8 cm.

Executed in 1905.

The Pène du Bois Collection

[with] ACA Galleries, New York

Private Collection, New York

Christie's New York, 5 December, 2002, lot 125 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

"The Spirit and Chronology of the Modern Movement," Arts and Decoration, vol. iii, no. 5, 1913, pp. 151-154 & 178

"Art and the Decline of the Bourgeoisie," Magazine of Art, vol. xxxvii, no. 6, 1944, pp. 218-222

Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art & traveling, Guy Pène du Bois: Artist About Town, 1980, no. 2, p. 64, illustrated

New York, James Graham & Sons, Crossroads: On the Cusp of Modernism in America, 2000

New York, James Graham & Sons, Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life, 2004, p. 69, illustrated