$6,350
Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000
What Do You See? The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Part II
Auction: February 28, 2024 at 12 PM ET
Posthumously inscribed ‘Je certifie que ce tableau est de R. de la Fresnaye/Miré' by Georges de Miré on the middle stretcher bar verso, oil on canvas
28 ½ x 19 ½ in.
Sotheby's New York, sale of February 23, 2001, lot 188.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The present work depicts Marie Valente and serves as a study for L'Italienne, one of De la Fresnaye's most famous Cubist bronzes from 1912. Another example of such preparatory oil study is on view at the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C., as part of the Chester Dale Collection.