Jean

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Paul César Helleu
Jean
drypoint, on wove, signed in pencil, with margins, a small thin spot on the sitter's sleeve, a small crease in the upper right beside her head, pale light-staining, old tape at the sheet edges, otherwise in good condition, framed; with Alice deux Mois, drypoint, by the same hand, signed in pencil, framed
P. 198 x 276 mm., S. 260 x 322 mm. (2)

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Lot Essay

The poignancy of the accompanying drypoint, Alice deux Mois, is heightened by the fact that Helleu's daughter Alice did not survive beyond infancy. She was knocked down by a run-away horse in 1898, only two years after her young parents' marriage.

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