Bernard BOUTET DE MONVEL
Two Men Choosing a Cane
Period 20th century
Origin France
Medium Pen, Black ink on papier calque
Dimension 31.2 x 24.1 cm (12¹/₄ x 9¹/₂ inches)
Period: 20th century
Origin: France
Medium: Pen, Black ink on papier calque
Signature: Inscribed la Belle canne in black ink in the centre.
Signed with the artist’s monogram BMB in black ink at the lower right.
Inscribed Trait rose / La lettre en Noir in pencil in the upper left margin.
Inscribed les lettres ont de indiquent par [?] 5mm cette planche / du doivent(?) etre en noir / trait rose / I in pencil in the centre.
Inscribed with measurements 12.5 in pencil at the bottom edge and numbered 92i n pencil on the verso.
Dimension: 31.2 x 24.1 cm (12¹/₄ x 9¹/₂ inches)
Provenance: Among the contents of the artist’s studio in Paris at the time of his death
By descent to the artist’s daughter, Sylvie Boutet de Monvel, Paris,
Literature: Eugène Marsan, ‘La Belle Canne’, Gazette du Bon Ton, December 1920, p.317.
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