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6-4-52 Birmingham Museum Mr. R.F. Howard

LA FRESNAYE, Roger de (1885-1925)

ESQUISSE POUR "LES FEUILLES BLANCHES"

Ink wash: 10" x 8" Dated 1921.

Signed lower right. 

A still life, study for the oil painting "Les Feuilles Blanches" painted in 1922. See reproductions in Nebelthau (29) and in Chadourne (11), p. 323.

A round table with loose leaves of paper on it, the center ones folded in a geometrical, cylinder-like form. A cloth is folded back loosely on the right of the table. In the background on the left is a window draped with curtains, to the side of which is a three-leafed screen. 

Collection: Paul Chadourne 

Bibliography: Germain Seligman "Roger de la Fresnaye", 1945, Catalogue No. 42, reproduced PL. XVII

Exhibited: Phillips Memorial Gallery, April - May 1943.
"Roger de la Fresnaye", Arts Club of Chicago, Dec. 3 -27, 1943, No. 30
"Roger de la Fresnaye", Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington,
" Jan. 15 - Feb. 15, 1944, No 26
"Roger de la Fresnaye", Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York,
Oct. 30 - Nov. 20, 1947; No. 20
"Master Drawings of Five Centuries", Jacques Seligmann & Co., N. Y.
Jan. 15 - Feb. 3, 1951, no. 18 (reprod.)

PRICE.........$ 400.

2 REDON, Odilon (1840-1916)

"EVOCATION"

Drawing: 20-1/2" x 15"  Signed lower left: Odilon Redon

This mystic composition shows a design in the shape of a vase, crowned with the head of a girl surrounded by a large fan-like halo. Against this shape a large feather is propped. All of this is in black against a pink background on a not quite so deep black floor. 

Collection: Ambroise Vollard

Exhibited: "Redon Exhibition", Jacques Seligmann & Co., N. Y., Oct. 22 - 
Nov. 10, 1951 - show travelled to: 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Nov. 29, 1951 - Jan. 20, 1952
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Feb.1 - Mar. 1, '52
No. 32 of joint catalogue and reproduced 

PRICE.........$ 900.

3 JONGKIND, Johann Barthold (1819-1891)

"GRENOBLE LANDSCAPE"

Watercolor: 6-3/8" x 9-3/4"  Signed lower left: "Jongkind"
Dated lower right: "Grenoble, Mars '69"

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