3407 - 4320 FINE ARTS - MODERN ART. PRINTS, DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS and SCULPTURES
- Closed hole repainted just below centre. = With an unidentifed French gallery label on verso.
= Sorlier 237.
= Sorlier 232.
= From J. DUPIN, Sur quatorze lithographies de Chagall (Derriere le Miroir, no.246. Paris, 1981. Middle-fold as published).
- Sl. browned, especially blank margins; sl. frayed; edges very brittle.
AND 4 col. lithogr. poster after J. CHÉRET on brittle paper, "Halle aux Chapeaux. Le plus Élegants de tout Paris pour Hommes, Dames & Enfants".
Idem. "Halle aux Chapeaux. Le plus vaste entrepôt de Chapellerie de la Capitale." Col. lithogr. poster, 36,8x27,8 cm., "d'après Chéret" on the stone, printed by Chaix, Paris.
- Sl. browned, especially blank margins; sl. frayed; edges very brittle.
AND 4 duplicates of the second poster, all frayed/ sl. dam., mainly in blank margins.
- Sl. browned, especially outer blank margins; edges very brittle.
AND 5 duplicates of the second poster, all on brittle paper.
- With later(?) framing line in pencil in the image; under passepartout.
- Upper corners tipped onto paper mount.
- Leaf laid down on stiff paper; sl. fingersoiled.
= In 1917 Cocteau visited Rome, where he drew a portrait of i.a. Pablo Picasso in similar style. In 2010 Bonhams sold an other version of this portrait (dated by Bonhams around 1916) from the Severin Wunderman collection. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.
- Mint condition. This lot is subject to 4% resale royalties ('droit de suite') over the total amount of hammerprice and buyer's premium.
= Rare.
- Yellowed.
= With a SIGNED accompanying letter by Constant ("21 Mei 1996"): "De door u getoonde aquarel is één van de ±8 illustraties die ik in 1939 of 1940 gemaakt heb bij "Les fleurs du mal" van Baudelaire. De titel van het gedicht is "Le revenant" (het spook)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.