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Robert WEST (illustrator, active circa 1920-1940)
The Little Glass
Pen, black ink and watercolor on paper
Signed and dated upper right Rt West 23, titled lower center Le P'tit verre
32 x 25cm
Folds, a tear at the bottom right and another in the middle left
Note: Robert West illustrated Baudelaire's Amoenitates Belgicae, published in Paris by J. Fort in 1925, Les Fleurs du Mal, condemned plays, by the same, published in Paris by Paul Cotinaud in 1931, poems by Léon Vérane in 1950 or The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, published in Paris by A. Sedrowski in 1936.
15 works by the artist, on the theme of caricature, madness and melancholy, are on sale at the gallery.
Provenance: artist's studio funds.
Ref: KIT419APDH