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514 - Marie Vassilieff (Franco-Russian, 1884-1957) Georges Collard…
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Estimate €15,000 - €20,000
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Marie Vassilieff (Franco-Russian, 1884-1957) Georges Collard with bugle and dog, 1929 Oil on card. Signed, located Paris and dated 22 March 1929. Height 65 Width 54 cm. (restoration) Provenance: Claude Bernès collection (1941-2025), Paris. This work is registered in the Claude Bernès archives under no. 91. Bibliography: - "Paris-Tunis, peintres en mouvement", Exhibition catalogue ,Centre d'art et de culture de Tunisie à Dar Cherif, 2010. - Claude Bernès and Benoît Noël, "Marie Vassilieff", published by BVR, Livarot, work reproduced on p. 119. Exhibition: 2010, "Paris-Tunis, painters in movement", Centre d'art et de culture de Tunisie, Dar Cherif. Georges Collard practises playing his plunger in an attempt to charm a puppy or an ostrich. The eloquent stylisation hits the nail on the head. Marie Vassilieff dreams of prolonging her son's childhood by citing the dolls and drawings that captivated him as a child. At the age of thirteen, during his first years at boarding school at the Ecole de Commerce et de l'Industrie in Montargis, his work had even deteriorated, and he was already missing the presence of his mother. This painting belongs to the series of children's portraits from 1929-1930, in which Vassilieff captures with tender acuity the age between childhood and emancipation. The stylisation, inspired by both Cubism and popular Russian imagery, gives these little figures an almost puppet-like presence.
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About the sale MARIE VASSILIEFF - THE GOLDEN AGE OF MONTPARNASSE
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Auction time 06/08/2026 at 2:00 PM
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