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[[underlined]] 7748 [[/underlined]]

LA FRESNAYE, Roger de (1885-1925)       Price: $400.

[[underlined]] "ESQUISSE POUR "LES FEUILLES BLANCHES" [[/underlined]]" 

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. 

[[underlined]] Collection: [[/underlined]] Paul Chadourne.

[[underlined]] Bibliography: [[/underlined]] Germain Seligman "Roger de la Fresnaye", 1945, Catalogue No. 42, reproduced PL. xvii.

[[underlined]] Exhibited: [[/underlined]] 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. 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.)