Live Auction 7893Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours
Franz von Bayros (Zagreb 1866-1924 Vienna)
Lot 192

Franz von Bayros (Zagreb 1866-1924 Vienna)

Beauty and the Beast

Closed6 December 2012

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GBP 6,000

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Franz von Bayros (Zagreb 1866-1924 Vienna)
Beauty and the Beast
signed '.F.BAYROS.'
pencil, pen and black ink, grey wash
17 x 16¼ in. (43.2 x 41.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1986, lot 532.

Specialist note

Many of Franz von Bayros's drawings were designed for advertising. He executed a similar composition for a poster for Moët & Chandon 'White Star Sec', which again shows a woman with a recumbent lion (the lion, in the poster, cradles a bottle in its paw).