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Property from a Distinguished American Private Collection

Henri Laurens

Tête

Auction Closed

March 5, 04:45 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Private Collection

Henri Laurens

1885 - 1954


Tête

signed H.L., dated 17. and inscribed L.L.V. (centre right)

collage, pen and ink, pencil, pastel and wash on paper

33.1 by 23.2 cm. 13 by 9⅛ in.

Framed: 53.5 by 43 cm. 21 by 16⅞ in.

Executed in 1917.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Galerie Berggruen and Cie., Paris (acquired by 1967)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1968)

The Pace Gallery, New York

Irving W. Rabb and Charlotte 'Dolly' Frank, Boston (acquired in the late 1960s)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Cubist Epoch, 1971, no. 164, illustrated (titled Head and catalogued as ink and collage on paper)