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roger de la fresnaye 1885-1925

Sold for $9,600 at Sotheby's on May 8, 2001.

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roger de la fresnaye 1885-1925 Le Tambour Watercolor over traces of pencil on paper laid down on paper laid down on board 10 3/8 by 8 1/8 in. 26.4 by 20.6 cm. Executed circa 1917-20. Provenance: Mme. Dambournet, Paris (sold: Sotheby's, London, March 27, 1985, lot 342); Acquired at the above sale This work was executed as an illustration for a book, Le Tambour, by Jean Cocteau. Although the book was never published it engendered an important collaboration between the two artists, and De La Fresnaye's images were praised for their "clarity, grace and equilibrium."(Les oeuvres completes de Raymond Radiguet, Grasset, 1952, p. 462).

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