Dec 06, 2018 - Sale 2495

Sale 2495 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
GEORGES LEPAPE.
"La Grue Huppée." Costume design and sketch for Mademoiselle Pretty Myrtile (the Crested Crane) in "L'Âge d'or des bêtes"(The Golden Age of the Beasts), a pantomime ballet of the Rip review presented at the Théâtre Marigny, Paris, 1916. Watercolor and gouache over graphite. 356x222 mm; 14x8 3/4 inches, laid to 18x12 1/2-inch sheet. Signed and dated "Geo. Lepape, 1916" in lower right image. Hinged to matte. Exhibited: Devambez Gallery, Paris, 1920; "Georges Lepape," Paris, Luxembourg Gallery, 1978.