Lot Essay
This work is sold with the silkscreen Pevsner made after our work to accompany the special edition of Joray's 1961 monograph on the artist.
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Création linéaire
Details
Antoine Pevsner (1884-1962)
Création linéaire
signed and indistinctly dated 'Pevsner 1918 - 1925' (incised lower right) and initialled and dated '18 AP 25' (incised lower left)
oil, gouache and encaustic on cradled board
20 1/4 x 14 in. (51.5 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1918-1925
Création linéaire
signed and indistinctly dated 'Pevsner 1918 - 1925' (incised lower right) and initialled and dated '18 AP 25' (incised lower left)
oil, gouache and encaustic on cradled board
20 1/4 x 14 in. (51.5 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1918-1925
Provenance
Marcel Joray, Neuchâtel, acquired from the artist in 1961.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above in June 1997, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above in June 1997, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
M. Joray (ed.), P. Peissi & C. Giedion-Welcker, Antoine Pevsner, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 17a, p. 147.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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