"Robert West, Paris Asleep During The Holidays"
Robert WEST (illustrator, active circa 1920-1940)Paris asleep during vacation
Pen and black ink on paper
Dated 1946 lower left, signed WEST lower right, titled lower center in pencil Vacances 1946 / Gai Paris
24, 6 x 32 cm
One slight stain
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 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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