Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925)

Property from the Estate of MRS. GERMAIN SELIGMAN

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Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925)

Portrait de Paul Poiret

stamped with signature lower right 'R de la Fresnaye'--watercolor, pen and black ink on board
Image size: 6¼ x 5¼in. (16 x 13.3cm.)
Sheet size: 10½ x 9 5/8in. (26.7 x 24.4cm.)

Painted circa 1913

Provenance

Jean-Louis Gampert, Paris
Georges Schick, Paris
Germain Seligman, New York (by descent to the late owner)

Literature

G. Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye with a catalogue raisonné, London, 1969, p. 174, no. 194 (illustrated)

Exhibited

New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., Roger de la Fresnaye, Oct.-Nov., 1947, no. 14 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

The Parisian couturier Paul Poiret was among de la Fresnaye's earliest admirers, having acquired La partie de cartes in the 1912 Salon d'Automne. In 1913 de la Fresnaye provided two designs for Roman costumes for a soirée which Poiret held in St. Cloud. The archaic stylization of Poiret's features in the present work is perhaps related to that occasion.

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