"Robert West, Self-portrait In Profile"
Robert WEST (illustrator, active circa 1920-1940)Self-portrait in profile
Charcoal heightened white gouache on paper
Signed on the back Robert WEST
33 x 26 cm
Foxing, one small tear
Note : Robert West illustrated Baudelaire's Amoenitates Belgicae, published in Paris by J. Fort in 1925 , Les Fleurs du Mal, condemned pieces, by the same, published in Paris by Paul Cotinaud in 1931, poems by Léon Vérane in 1950 or Le Masque de la mort rouge by Edgar Allan Poe, published in Paris by A. Sedrowski in 1936.
15 works by the artist, on the theme of caricature, madness and melancholy, are on sale at the gallery.
Provenance : artist's studio fund.
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