'LA SECRTAIRE EN LAQUE VERTE DE LADY MENDL', A WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE ON PAPER

WILLIAM RANKIN, CIRCA 1920S

Details

'LA SECRTAIRE EN LAQUE VERTE DE LADY MENDL', A WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE ON PAPER
William Rankin, circa 1920s
Signed lower left WM RANKIN
22 x 18in. (56 x 46.5cm.)

Lot Essay

The offered lot depicts the upstairs sitting room at the 'Villa Trianon' before it was redecorated with boiseries and painted with bows and ribbons. As indicated in the Collection de Tableaux catalogue of 1940 (lot 9) in this sale, this painting hung in Ms. de Wolfe's boudoir at Versailles