Mixed Media Painting and Etching of Children Including Georges Redon
Item Details
A mixed media painting and etching on paper. Featured is an etching by French artist Georges Redon (1869-1943) titled Ah! Les Hommes that depicts a girl and boy near a tree trunk and with a small string-pulled wagon. The girl is knelt behind the smaller boy to fix his shorts. It is signed in plate to the lower left and titled to the lower right, both partially obscured by the mat. It is presented behind a mat and glass in a wood frame. The painting uses watercolor and colored pencil to depict a triptych in which a young girl in a yellow coat is playing in the sand. It is presented with a white mat cut in three circular windows, behind glass, and in a black frame with an illegible signature to the verso.
Condition
- wear to edges of frames; boy and girl painting loose in frame.
Dimensions
- measures girl playing in sand; boy and girl measures 16.25" W x 13.25" H x 1.0" D.
Item #
17CHI188-185-001
