Femme étendue

Details

Henri Laurens (1885-1954)
Femme étendue
signed with initials 'HL' (lower right)
pencil on paper
13¼ x 20½in. (33.6 x 52.1cm.)
Drawn in 1950

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Literature

P. Waldberg, Henri Laurens ou la femme placée en abime, Paris, 1980, p.139 (illus)

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Lot Essay

This example shows two variations of the figure's back. A lithograph of this work was produced by Guilde de La Gravure, Geneva, in an edition of 212.
There are a number of related works and a smaller version was exhibited in the Malborough-Gerson Henri Laurens exhibition from November to December 1966. There is another version with gouache in the Collection Kahnweiler-Leiris at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

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