Maurice Blond 1899-1974
Parisian Street Scene, 1945
pencil on paper
31.1 x 40.6 cm
framed: 53 x 62 cm
framed: 53 x 62 cm
signed (upper left): 'M. Blond'
1987-39
© Maurice Blond estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
Blond was inspired by Paris and regularly depicted it in his work. This sketch, made the year after the Liberation, shows a typical Parisian street scene and the continuity of...
Blond was inspired by Paris and regularly depicted it in his work. This sketch, made the year after the Liberation, shows a typical Parisian street scene and the continuity of everyday life following this period of turmoil.
Provenance
presented by J. SpreiregenLiterature
Sarah MacDougall ed., Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2012) p. 17;Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 26.
