Mar 10, 2022 - Sale 2597

Sale 2597 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LOUIS VALTAT
Étude d'une femme (Madame Valtat).

Red conté crayon on paper, circa 1905. 247x317 mm; 9 3/4x12 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Estate of the artist, Paris, with the black ink stamp (Lugt 1771bis, lower left recto); Galerie J. Le Chapelin, Paris, with the label; private collection, New York.

The artist's wife, née Suzanne Noel (1879-1967), married in Versailles in 1900, was Valtat's favorite model and posed for an oil portrait by the artist's friend, Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1903, now in a private collection.