30th Mar, 2021 14:00
BERNARD BOUTET DE MONVEL (FRENCH 1881-1949)
Deux études pour portraits de Sylvie, la fille de l'artiste
each with the artist's 2016 Estate stamp (lower right)
pencil, unframed
65.1 x 37.5 cm (25 5/8 x 14 3/4 in; 34.8 x 49.8 (13 7/8 x 19 5/8 in)
PROVENANCE:
Succession Boutet de Monvel
The artist's Estate sale, Collection Boutet de Monvel, Sotheby's, Paris, 5-6 April 2016, lot 223 (part lot)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
One of the drawings depicts Sylvie playing with her dog, Champagne, a preparatory study for two paintings executed by the artist in Nemours in 1944 and exhibited in New York at the Knoedler Gallery as part of Monvel's exhibition Profiles in 1947.
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