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Aristide MAILLOL (France/ 1861-1944) Kneeling...

Estimate :
1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Aristide MAILLOL (France/ 1861-1944) Kneeling woman, head bowed Graphite on paper mounted on cardboard Signed with the initial 'M' (lower left) 34.3 x 21.5 cm; with frame 41 x 30 cm Provenance : -Pascale Dewavrin 1917-1995, Paris (in the 1960s). -Then by descent to the present owner. Mr Olivier Lorquin has confirmed the authenticity of this work. A duplicate certificate of authenticity for Dina Vierny no. 1097 dated May 18 1966, countersigned by Olivier Lorquin, will be given to the purchaser. Pascale Dewavrin was the wife of André Dewavrin, Colonel Passy (1911-1998), head of General de Gaulle's Central Intelligence and Action Bureau during the Second World War. She met the historian Waldemar George and Dina Vierny in 1964, who dedicated to them the monograph 'Aristide Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture' by Waldemar George, published in 1964.

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