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7748

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 (19) and in Chadourne (21), p.523.

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-leaved 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, D ec.3-27, 1945, no. 30. "Roger de la Fresnaye", Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington Jan. 15-Feb. 15, 1944, no. 26
"Roger de la Fresnaye", Jacques Seligmann, N.Y., Oct. 30-Nov. 20, 1947, no. 20.

1. Nebelthau, E. Roger de la Fresnaye, Paris, 1935.
2. Chadourne, Paul. Notes sure Roger de la Fresnaye. Paris, 1928.