Mar 10, 2022 - Sale 2597

Sale 2597 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CHARLES MAURIN
Magasins de Louvre.

Color pastels and conté crayon on cream wove paper, 1890-95. 482x609 mm; 19x24 inches. Signed and titled in pencil, lower right recto.

Provenance: Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York; private collection, New York.

Maurin (1856-1914) was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France. He studied painting and engraving at the renowned École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Maurin was close friends with the preeminent French art dealer and collector, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), as well as artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). This drawing depicts a late 19th century Parisian street scene, with people crowding the entrance of the Louvre department store on the corner of Rue St. Honoré.