Property from the Estate of MRS. GERMAIN SELIGMAN

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Property from the Estate of MRS. GERMAIN SELIGMAN

ROGER DE LA FRESNAYE (1885-1925)
L'homme au guéridon
dated bottom right Grasse 20--pencil heightened with white chalk on gray paper
8 5/8 x 6¼in. (22 x 16cm.)
Drawn in 1920

Provenance

Paul Chadourne, Garches
Germain Seligman, New York (by descent to the late owner)

Literature

G. Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye, New York, 1945, no. 34
G. Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye with a catalogue raisonné, London, 1969, no. 465 (illustrated, p. 243)

Exhibited

New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., Roger de la Fresnaye, Nov., 1947, no. 19

Lot Essay

When he was discharged from the army in 1918 La Fresnaye learned he had tuberculosis, the disease which would eventually kill him in 1925. He decided to retire from Paris and in 1920 moved into the Villa Cresp on the outskirts of Grasse, which had been occupied by his friend Paul Poiret. Among the furniture he installed in Grasse was a Louis-Philippe guéridon which figures in several still-life paintings of this period and appears in the background of this drawing.