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MARCEL VERTÈS Femme assise sur un balcon, vue sur la Seine.
Oil on canvas, circa 1950. 500x650 mm; 19 3/4x25 3/4 inches. Signed in oil, upper left recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.
Vertès (1895-1961) was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins. He won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge. Vertès is also responsible for the murals in the Café Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel, New York, and for those in the Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York.
