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Carlos Schwabe (Altona 1866-1926 Avon, Seine-et-Marne)
Lot 165

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

Four designs for illustrated pages

Closed6 December 2012

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GBP 3,000

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Carlos Schwabe (Altona 1866-1926 Avon, Seine-et-Marne)
Four designs for illustrated pages
two signed with initials and dated 'CS 91', one signed and dated 'SCH CARLOS 91' and one signed and dated 'CARLOS SCHWABE 92'
pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour
12¾ x 9¾ in. (32.4 x 24.8 cm.); and smaller (4)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 June 1980, lot 461 (the illustrated drawing).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1984, lots 404, 407 and 408.

Specialist note

It has been suggested that Schwabe may have designed these for L'Evangile de l'Enfance de nôtre Seigneur Jésus Christ selon Saint-Pierre, published in Paris, 1894.