Georges de Feure (Georges Joseph Van Sluyters) - Femme lisant - Lesende Frau mit Federhut (Femme lisant - Reading Woman with Feather Hat) - image-1

Lot 337 D

Georges de Feure (Georges Joseph Van Sluyters) - Femme lisant - Lesende Frau mit Federhut (Femme lisant - Reading Woman with Feather Hat)

Auction 979 - overview Cologne
31.05.2011, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 €
Result: 6.050 € (incl. premium)
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Watercolour and gouache on firm, slightly textured drawing paper 60 x 44.6 cm. Signed DE FEURE in greyish white in lower left margin. - Browned; somewhat unfresh and with minor defects. - Preparatory design for the cover illustration of the series "Lithographies originales album no. 1", Paris 1898.

Provenance

Marieluise Hasselburg (opera singer), acquired in the 1930s in Paris, since then in family possession

Literature

See Ian Milman, Georges de Feure, (Paris) 1992, with ill. p. 75 (colour lithograph of the album)