Lot n° 20
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450 - 550
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Alain Bonnefoit: Nude, June 1990 (Ink and watercolor) - Lot 20
Alain Bonnefoit: Nude, June 1990 (Ink and watercolor)
Ink (sumi-e) and watercolor
Hand-signed and dated in the lower left corner: “A. Bonnefoit, 06.90”; dedicated in the lower right: “For Christine and Yves Guérin, with all my friendship”
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 27 cm (14.17 × 10.63 in.) — Image: nearly full sheet
Condition: good condition, unframed
Provenance: Yves Guérin’s guestbook, compiled between 1963 and 1992 (single-owner provenance). Interesting connection: Bonnefoit was a student and friend of the sculptor Antoniucci Volti (No. 25 in this album)—both the master and the student are thus featured in the guestbook.
Description: A seated female nude viewed from the front, her body outlined with a fluid ink line drawn in a single stroke over soft watercolor washes—gray-blue in the background, reddish-brown accents on either side, ochre hair, and pale, velvety skin. Alain Bonnefoit is one of the leading figures of the École de Paris, internationally renowned for the female nude, which has been his favorite subject for forty years; a student and friend of the sculptor Volti, who instilled in him a love for the female form, he has mastered the Japanese sumi-e technique, using ink in a single stroke. Signed, dated, and inscribed by hand.
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