Jan 30, 2003 - Sale 1958

Sale 1958 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FARIA CARMELITA.
78 3/4x28 inches. Bourgerie, Paris.
Condition B: restored losses, repaired tears and overpainting in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds.
Surrounded by smaller vignettes demonstrating her strength and grace, Carmelita, in yellow against a blue sky, is suspended by her teeth high above the streets of Paris while playing the castanets. A smaller portrait in red, blue and white shows she has beauty as well as talent.