Oct 26, 2017 - Sale 2459

Sale 2459 - Lot 181

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964) "WHERE IS THIS BOWER BESIDE THE SILVER THAMES?" 1930.
39 3/4x49 1/2 inches, 101x125 3/4 cm. Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds.
Condition B+: mat staining and repaired tears in margins; creases in margins and image; colors attenuated.
A visitor to Dupas' studio once noted a quotation from Voltaire pinned to wall: "Decadence is produced by doing things the easy way and by being lazy about doing them well, by being sated with beauty, and by a taste for the bizarre" (French Art Deco p. 90). Plakat Kunst p. 120, Richmond p. 116.