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Carlos Schwabe (Altona 1866-1926 Avon, Seine-et-Marne)
Lot 163

Carlos Schwabe (Altona 1866-1926 Avon, Seine-et-Marne)

Allegorical figures: A woman standing on a globe, reaching for the stars; and A woman with bound hands wearing a Phrygian cap

Closed6 December 2012

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Carlos Schwabe (Altona 1866-1926 Avon, Seine-et-Marne)
Allegorical figures: A woman standing on a globe, reaching for the stars; and A woman with bound hands wearing a Phrygian cap
the second signed and dated '1908 CARLOS SCHWABE'
pencil, pen and black ink, heightened with gold, one inscribed in a shaped arch, both with pencil framing lines and added sections of paper in the cartouches
12¼ x 9¾ in. (31.1 x 23.8 cm.)
a pair (2)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1984, lots 403 (Woman standing on a globe) and 406 (Woman with bound hands).
with the Fine Art Society, London.

Specialist note

Although it has not yet been possible definitively to link these studies to a project, the date suggests that they could be related to Schwabe's illustrations for F. Lamennais's Paroles d'un croyant, published in that year. A similar figure of a woman seen against stars appears in the vignette for Chapter XII (see J.-D. Jumeau-Lafond, Carlos Schwabe: symboliste et visionnaire, Paris, 1994, p. 140, illustrated).