Robert West, Madness

Robert WEST (illustrator, active circa 1920-1940)
Madness
Charcoal, brush, black ink and black ink wash heightened white gouache on paper mounted on green paper
Monogrammed and dated lower right RW 1932, titled lower right on the mount La Folie
27 x 20 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