Live Auction 2756Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design
RENE BUTHAUD (1889-1989)
Lot 31

RENE BUTHAUD (1889-1989)

STUDY FOR 'LA NAISSANCE DE VENUS', CIRCA 1920

Closed19 December 2013

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RENE BUTHAUD (1889-1989)
STUDY FOR 'LA NAISSANCE DE VENUS', CIRCA 1920
pastel and charcoal on paper, with later linen backing, in gilt-wood frame
83½ x 55½ in. (211.5 x 141 cm.)
signed lower left R. Buthaud

René Buthaud, Bordeaux;
Michel Fortin, Paris.

Specialist note

This work is the study for Buthaud's La Naissance de Vénus, a set of nine verre églomiseé panels realized circa 1935. The verre églomisé panel was sold with Les Collections du Château de Gourdon at Christie's Paris in 2011 for 109,000 Euros.