Live Auction 2651The Steven A Greenberg Collection Masterpieces of French Art Deco
JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964)
Lot 24

JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964)

STUDY FOR LA GLOIRE DE BORDEAUX, CIRCA 1938

Closed13 December 2012

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JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964)
STUDY FOR LA GLOIRE DE BORDEAUX, CIRCA 1938
for the La Gloire de Bordeaux fresco in the Bourse de Travail, Bordeaux, charcoal and graphite on paper, with original silvered wood frame designed by Jean Dupas
21½ x 40 in. (54.6 x 101.6 cm.) sight size
signed Jean Dupas

Barry Friedman, New York.

Specialist note

cf. Exhibition catalogue, Bordeaux Art Deco, Musée des Arts Décoratifs de la Ville de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 1979, pl. no. 39 for an image of the complete oil on canvas maquette for the fresco at the Bourse du Travail. This study is for the lounging female nude in the lower right quadrant;
R. Coustet, Bordeaux et l'Aquitaine 1920-1940, Urbanisme et Architecture, exhibition catalogue, Bourse du Travail, Paris, 1988, pp. 150-157;
R. Coustet, 'La Gloire de Bordeaux', Revue Archéologique de Bordeaux, Paris, 1989, pp. 99-112.

This work will be included in the Jean Dupas catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Romain Lefebvre.