Bernard Boutet de Monvel
42. Broke!, 1920s
Pen and black ink over pencil on paper
21 x 15cm to edge of mount (32.5 x 26.7cm with frame)
With artist's estate stamp, and
inscribed in pencil “Des âmes compatissantes ont fini par s’émouvoir de tant de misères cachées/Cul de lampe” [Compassionate souls have eventually been moved by so much hidden misery/End of the line]
With artist's estate stamp, and
inscribed in pencil “Des âmes compatissantes ont fini par s’émouvoir de tant de misères cachées/Cul de lampe” [Compassionate souls have eventually been moved by so much hidden misery/End of the line]
12156
$ 2,500
Provenance
Sylvie Boutet de Monvel (the artist's daughter), by descent from the artist.Private collection, France, by whom acquired from the above in the 1980s.
Private collection, United Kingdom
Literature
Publications
French Vogue, Paris, 1920s, issue untraced
