Lot Essay
This drawing is a study for a larger gouache, Le Tétramorphe (ou Composition à quatre éléments) (Varichon no. 1185), which was painted in 1923.
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Etude pour une composition à quatre éléments
Details
Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)
Etude pour une composition à quatre éléments
signed and dated 'Alb Gleizes 23' (lower right)
pencil heightened with white chalk on brown paper
10 5/8 x 8¼ in. (27 x 21 cm.)
Drawn in 1923
Etude pour une composition à quatre éléments
signed and dated 'Alb Gleizes 23' (lower right)
pencil heightened with white chalk on brown paper
10 5/8 x 8¼ in. (27 x 21 cm.)
Drawn in 1923
Provenance
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 23 June 1993, lot 109. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
A. Varichon, Albert Gleizes, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. I, p. 385, no. 1184 (illustrated).