Design for a fan: Éventail aux pensées portant l'inscription 'Jeanne'

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PAUL CÉSAR HELLEU (1859-1927)
Design for a fan: Éventail aux pensées portant l'inscription 'Jeanne'
signed 'P Helleu' (lower left) and inscribed ‘Jeanne’ (centre right)
watercolour on paper
11 x 24 in. (28 x 60 cm.)
Executed circa 1885.

Provenance

Possibly Paul Paulin (1852-1937), Paris.
with Nevill Keating Pictures, London, from whom acquired by the late Barry Humphries.

Exhibited

Honfleur, Musée Eugene Boudin, Paul Helleu 1859- 1927, July-October 1993, no. 39.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Les Amis de Paul-César Helleu for confirming the authenticity of this work, which has been registered in their archive as n°: APCH AL1-8564.

There is a mention of "Eventail aux pensées" in a letter sent by Helleu to his friend Jacques-Emile Blanche in 1885 (APCH LE2-7588). The fan appears to have been ordered from Helleu by Paul Paulin, dental surgeon, sculptor and friend of many artists, for his fiancée 'Jeanne'.

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