Jun 08, 2010 - Sale 2216

Sale 2216 - Lot 72

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JARED FRENCH
Two pen and ink drawings.

Poetry, pen and blue ink on cream wove stationery paper. 140x194 mm; 5 1/2x7 5/8 inches. Titled in blue ink, lower center * Music, pen and black ink on cream wove stationery paper. 138x215 mm; 5 1/2x8 1/2 inches. Initialed in black ink, lower center.

These were studies for French's Poetryand Music, 1943 (see illustration below), and were created on Saltaire, Fire Island, N.Y. stationery, where French summered from 1937 to 1945 with Margaret French and Paul Cadmus.