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    • Georges Valmier (1885-1937)
    Lot 346

    Georges Valmier (1885-1937)

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    Price realised

    USD 122,500

    Estimate

    USD 50,000 - USD 70,000

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    Georges Valmier (1885-1937)
    Composition
    signed and dated 'G. Valmier 1918' (lower right)
    oil and newspaper collage on board
    15 x 11 7/8 in. (38.1 x 30.1 cm.)
    Executed in 1918

    Provenance

    Galerie l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (by 1927).
    Dikran Kelekian, Paris.
    Acquired by the late owners, by 1977.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    L. Rosenberg, ed., Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne, June 1927, no. 37 (illustrated).
    D. Bazetoux, Georges Valmier, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1993, p. 173, no. 625 (illustrated).


    Exhibited

    Paris, Galerie l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), possibly 1927, no. 85.


    Other information

    Pre-Lot Text

    Property from the Collection of Professor and Mrs George Hamilton

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