Mar 10, 2022 - Sale 2597

Sale 2597 - Lot 466

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JACQUES VILLON
Le Dément.

Pen and black ink and red crayon with pink wash on thin wove paper, 1952. 315x230 mm; 12 1/2x9 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower left recto, and titled in pencil, lower right recto.

Provenance: Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York, with the label; Robert L. B. Tobin, San Antonio; private collection, Chicago.

Published: Jacques Villon, Sixty Drawings and Watercolors, 1894-1954, Catalogue Number 50, New York, Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., catalogue number 58.

The current drawing likely relates to another drawing, L'homme en colère, 1952, now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as an etching made by Fiorini after Villon (Ginestet/Pouillon App. 20).