Aug 05, 2009 - Sale 2185

Sale 2185 - Lot 388

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LEONETTO CAPPIELLO (1875-1942) LAVEUSE MIGNON. 1921.
62x47 inches, 158x120 cm. Devambez, Paris.
Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; minor restored losses and restored pin-holes in margins. Framed.
"Laveuse Mignon is a hand-operated washer and the implication of the design is that it saved a housewife sufficient time to leisurely nurse her child, the laundry already done and hung out to dry. This is an unusually tender scene, and Cappiello makes no attempt to indulge in his customary hyperbole" (Cappiello / Rennert p. 216). Cappiello / Rennert 336.