Lot 68: ALOÏSE CORBAZ | Composition de Noël coiffée d’une feuille d’aluminium (recto) Orgues Saint-Jacques (verso)

Colour pencils, graphite, stitched and glued on packing paper

79 x 50 cm (irregular)

Colour pencils, graphite, stitched and glued on packing paper

One framed work inspected framed. The edges and the two sides of the work are both clearly visible. The right edge of the work is irregular and a smaller asymmetrical wrinkled sheet has ben sewed on the back of the top edge by the artist herself. The work has probably been kept folded for some time which left clear marks across the paper; creases are visible on the whole surface. Other pieces of paper sewed or glued are visible on the back side. In very good condition.
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Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964), catalogue raisonné électronique, Swiss Institute for Art Research SIK-ISEA/Fondation Aloïse, no. 93939.01/02, ill.

Marc-Henri Thélin, Switzerland
Private collection, Switzerland
Collection abcd, Montreuil
Jennifer Pinto Safian, New York
Private collection, Switzerland (since 2014)