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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 23, 2009 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale | 2 | $****** - ****** | Guitare sur la table |
Works on Paper
50.8 x 65.7 cm (20 x 25.87 in)
gouache, charcoal, white chalk, pencil and collage on paper laid down on the artist's board
signed and dated 'LAURENS.18' (upper left)
Galerie de l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris. Christian Zervos, Paris. Jacques Dupin, Paris. Galerie Creuzevault, Paris, until 1955.
Acquired by the present owner circa 1955.
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Henri Laurens, May - June 1952, no. 38. Paris, Galerie Berggruen et Cie, Henri Laurens, papiers collés, March - April 1955, n.n. Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, A la rencontre de Pierre Reverdy, March - May 1970, no. 309 (illustrated p. 130). Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, The Cubist Epoch, December 1970 - February 1971, no. 166 (illustrated p. 256, pl. 317, titled 'Guitar', dated '1917-1918'); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April - June 1971. Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Les Cubistes, May - September 1973, no. 124 (illustrated p. 71); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, September - November 1973. London, The Tate Gallery, The Essential Cubism, 1907-1920, Braque, Picasso and their Friends, April - July 1983, no. 204 (illustrated p. 391, catalogued as 'acquired by the present owner in 1965'). Bern, Kunstmuseum, Henri Laurens, 1885-1954, August - October 1985, no. 5 (illustrated p. 58). Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Henri Laurens, le cubisme, constructions et papiers collés, 1915-1919, December 1985 - February 1986, no. 90 (illustrated p. 99). Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Henri Laurens, escultures i dibuixos, March - May 1989, no. 32. Villeneuve d'Ascq, Musée d'art moderne de la Communauté Urbaine de Lille, Henri Laurens, rétrospective, December 1992 - April 1993, no. 31 (illustrated p. 133).
J. Dupin, 'Les papiers peints d'Henri Laurens', in Cahiers d'Art, no. 2, Paris, 1954, pp. 179-190. M. Laurens, Henri Laurens, sculpteur, Paris, 1955 (illustrated p. 150). P. Waldberg, Henri Laurens ou la femme placée en abîme, Paris, 1980, p. 193 (illustrated p. 32). S. Kuthy, Henri Laurens, 1885-1954, Freiburg, 1985, no. 5, p. 59 (illustrated p. 58).
