Lot Essay
This work will be included in the supplement of the Jean Puy catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Association des Amis de Jean Puy et le Fonds Jean et Michel Puy.
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Les faunesses
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Jean Puy (1876-1960)
Les faunesses
signed and inscribed 'J Puy Les Faunesses' (on the neck); signed and dated 'JPuy 1907' and with Metthey's monogram (underneath)
tin-glazed earthenware vase
Height: 13 7/8 in. (35.3 cm.)
Executed in 1907
Les faunesses
signed and inscribed 'J Puy Les Faunesses' (on the neck); signed and dated 'JPuy 1907' and with Metthey's monogram (underneath)
tin-glazed earthenware vase
Height: 13 7/8 in. (35.3 cm.)
Executed in 1907
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Acquired in the 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Acquired in the 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exh. cat., La Céramique Fauve, André Metthey et les peintres, Nice, 1996, p. 96 (illustrated; titled 'Personnages et ours').
Special notice
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