Nov 12, 2015 - Sale 2398

Sale 2398 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PIERRE ARMAN
Self Portrait.

Mixed media and collage on paper, 1966. 324x273 mm; 12 3/4x10 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed and dated in felt-tip pen and black ink, lower left recto.

With-- OTAKAR COUBINE, Self Portrait, pen and brown ink on paper. Signed in pen and brown ink, lower right recto * ÉMILE OTHON FRIESZ, Self Portrait, charcoal on paper on card. Initialed in charcoal, lower right recto * JEAN LURÇAT, Self Portrait, pen and black ink over pencil on paper on card. Signed in pen and black ink, lower right recto. Various sizes and conditions.

Each acquired directly from the artist by Ladislas Segy; thence by descent to Helena Segy. Segy, an eminent dealer and scholar of African art, built relationships with several modern artists in the 1930s and amassed a collection of self-portraits both as gifts and in exchange for African art items.