ROGER DE LA FRESNAYE (1885-1925)
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Classic
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ID 1425878 
Lot 350  | ROGER DE LA FRESNAYE (1885-1925)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 90 000 
Le soldat à la moustache
signed and dated 'La fresnaye 18' (lower left)
gouache, watercolor and pen and India ink over pencil on paper
10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (26.9 x 20.6 cm.)
Executed in 1918
Provenance
Georges de Miré, Paris (cousin of the artist).
M. Van der Klip, Paris (circa 1950).
Galerie Percier, Paris.
Nannette and Herbert Rothschild, New York and Ossining (acquired from the above, 1951).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
G. Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye with a Catalogue Raisonné, Greenwich, 1969, p. 191, no. 271 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Roger de La Fresnaye, July-October 1950, no. 114.
Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Mans, Roger de La Fresnaye, November 1950-January 1951, p. 26, no. 30.
Providence, Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection, An Exhibition in Celebration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Pembroke College in Brown University, October-November 1966, no. 81 (illustrated).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Artist's Response to Crisis: A Sketch for an Exhibition, October-December 1970.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Encounters with Modern Art, The Reminiscences of Nanette F. Rothschild, Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, September 1996-December 1997, p. 165, no. 39 (illustrated in color).
| Artist: | Roger de la Fresnaye (1885 - 1925) | 
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| Applied technique: | Gouache | 
| Art style: | Abstract art, Modern art, Avant-garde | 
| Genre: | Portrait | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings | 
| Artist: | Roger de la Fresnaye (1885 - 1925) | 
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| Applied technique: | Gouache | 
| Art style: | Abstract art, Modern art, Avant-garde | 
| Genre: | Portrait | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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