"Robert West, Apparition Of Samuel"
Robert WEST (illustrator, active circa 1920-1940)Apparition of Samuël
Charcoal heightened white gouache on beige paper mounted on cream paper
Monogrammed and dated lower centre RW 1933, signed and titled on the mount ROBERT WEST / APPARITION DE SAMUËL
33.5 x 26 cm
Note : Robert West illustrated Baudelaire's Amoenitates Belgicae, published in Paris by J. Fort in 1925, Les Fleurs du Mal, condemned plays, by the same, published in Paris by Paul Cotinaud in 1931, poems by Léon Vérane in 1950 or The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, published in Paris by A. Sedrowski in 1936.
15 works by the artist, on the themes of caricature, madness and melancholy, are on sale at the gallery.
Provenance : artist's studio
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