Dec 16, 2021 - Sale 2592

Sale 2592 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
GEORGES LEPAPE (1887-1971)
"Les Oiseaux Blancs." Version of cover for Femina, published in the magazine's quarterly war issue, June 1917. Mixed media, including gouache, watercolor, graphite, and gold highlighting on paper. 293x237 mm; 11 1/2x9 1/4 inches, on 11 3/4x9 1/2-inch sheet. Titled in graphite in lower left margin; signed "Geo. Lepape" and dated 1917 in lower right image, in ink. Inscribed near and underneath signature "A mes chers parents / [souvenirs bien affectueux] / 19 mai 1919." Hinged to backing board with matte.

This original gouache was subsequently reproduced in Georges Lepape, ou l'élégance illustrée by Claude Lepape and Thierry Defer (Paris: Herscher, 1983), page 92.