Les Jumelles
A pencil drawing by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita titled Les Jumelles, depicting twin subjects in the artist's distinctive elegant linear style.
- Medium
- pencil on paper
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Impressionist and Modern Art Online
September 30, 2021
Estimate: $7,000 to $10,000
Lot 7
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Artists in conversation
Egon Schiele
Austrian · b. 1890
Schiele worked extensively in pencil on paper creating figurative portraits with a similarly refined yet expressive linear quality, capturing human subjects with elegant economy of line and psychological intimacy.
Kees van Dongen
Dutch · b. 1877
Van Dongen shared Foujita's Parisian milieu and created elegant figurative portraits of human subjects with a graceful linear sensibility, often depicting fashionable figures with refined draughtsmanship similar to this portrait drawing.
Balthus
French · b. 1908
Balthus produced meticulous pencil drawings of figurative subjects characterized by controlled precise linework and a quiet contemplative mood, qualities that closely parallel Foujita's elegant and restrained draftsmanship in this piece.
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