Carte de voeux

细节

Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Carte de voeux
signed 'G Braque' (lower right) and dated and inscribed '1954 Bonne Année' (throughout)
watercolor and pen and India ink on paper
3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (10 x 15 cm.)
Executed in 1954

来源

Grace Elliott Trudeau, Montreal (gift from the artist, 1954).
Andrée Lavigne and Elliott Trudeau, Quebec (by descent from the above).

荣誉呈献

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拍品专文

Grace Elliott Trudeau had often visited her brother, Gordon Elliott, a landscape architect who lived in Varengeville, France, and was a neighbor and friend of Braque. Her eldest son, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1984.