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Lot 253 René Gruau
"...I was practically born holding a pen between my fingers, I started tracing shapes which recalled women's legs at an age when female anatomy was not at all interesting to me. Probably I was not more than five or six years old. I think that it all came from the fact that when I was a child I loved to leaf through the Paris fashion magazines my mother left scattered around the house: of course they had illustrations of women sometimes wearing lingerie or see-through negligés (...) I was fascinated by shapes, lines, graphic signs which lured my observing and precocious eye"
René Gruau, 1994
"...I was practically born holding a pen between my fingers, I started tracing shapes which recalled women's legs at an age when female anatomy was not at all interesting to me. Probably I was not more than five or six years old. I think that it all came from the fact that when I was a child I loved to leaf through the Paris fashion magazines my mother left scattered around the house: of course they had illustrations of women sometimes wearing lingerie or see-through negligés (...) I was fascinated by shapes, lines, graphic signs which lured my observing and precocious eye"
René Gruau, 1994
RENÉ GRUAU (1909-2004)
LE MASQUE, CIRCA 1950
Closed29 January 2013
Price Realised
GBP 4,000