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Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Robert Descharnes, numbered d 3282 and dated Vendredi 27 juin 2003.
La meuniere Frasquita is an illustration for Pedro de Alarcón's Le Tricorne, which was adapted as a ballet by Manuel de Falla in 1958-59.
There is a very similar, earlier rendition of the same subject (executed in 1951), titled La reine des papillons, in the collection of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen.
La meuniere Frasquita is an illustration for Pedro de Alarcón's Le Tricorne, which was adapted as a ballet by Manuel de Falla in 1958-59.
There is a very similar, earlier rendition of the same subject (executed in 1951), titled La reine des papillons, in the collection of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen.