Mar 02, 2017 - Sale 2437

Sale 2437 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PAUL CÉSAR HELLEU
La Visage encadré, Madame Helleu.

Color drypoint, circa 1900. 278x400 mm; 10 7/8x15 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce print.

A portrait of Helleu's (1859-1927) wife, Alice Guérin (1870-1933) who he met painting a portrait commission of her in 1884. They fell in love and married two years later; throughout their lives together she was Helleu's favorite model and muse. Montesquiou 42.