PROPERTY FROM A SWISS COLLECTION
Antoine Pevsner (1884-1962)

Création linéaire

Price realised GBP 77,500
Estimate
GBP 70,000 – GBP 100,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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Antoine Pevsner (1884-1962)

Création linéaire

Price realised GBP 77,500
Closed: 28 Feb 2018
Price realised GBP 77,500
Closed: 28 Feb 2018
Details
Antoine Pevsner (1884-1962)
Création linéaire
signed and indistinctly dated 'Pevsner 1918 - 1925' (incised lower right) and initialled and dated '18 AP 25' (incised lower left)
oil, gouache and encaustic on cradled board
20 1/4 x 14 in. (51.5 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1918-1925
Provenance
Marcel Joray, Neuchâtel, acquired from the artist in 1961.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above in June 1997, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
M. Joray (ed.), P. Peissi & C. Giedion-Welcker, Antoine Pevsner, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 17a, p. 147.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

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