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Lot #2116: CHARLES BAUDELAIRE [imputée] - Study for 'Portrait de Jeanne Duval' - Original pen and ink drawing



Lot #2116: CHARLES BAUDELAIRE [imputée] - Study for 'Portrait de Jeanne Duval' - Original pen and ink drawing

  Lot #2116: CHARLES BAUDELAIRE [imputée] - Study for 'Portrait de Jeanne Duval' - Original pen and ink drawing


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Artist: Charles Baudelaire [imputée] (French, 1821-1867).
Title: "Study for 'Portrait de Jeanne Duval'".
Medium: Original pen and ink drawing.
Date: Composed c1846.
Dimensions: Overall size: 7 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (181 x 235 mm). Image size: 7 x 8 in. (178 x 203 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed upper left, annotated upper right. Light cream laid watermarked paper. Overall good condition; a few fox marks; minor discoloration and edge fading. Provenance: Ex-collection a member of the Feau family, Paris, France; Private collector, Paris. Comment(s): Baudelaire, the celebrated poet, is generally regarded as the father of modern art criticism. His artistic output was extremely small; we have located only nine sales (seven different images) of his work at auction in the past 21 years, all drawings. The finished drawing of Baudelaire's lover Jeanne Duval, of which our example is the preliminary study, was offered at Claude Aguttes, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on 09/19/2007 (see attached image - #4). [26411-1-400]

 

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