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Robert WEST (illustrator, active circa 1920-1940)
Horse-drawn carriage obstructing automobiles
Pencil on paper
Unsigned
22.6 x 30.2 cm
Stains top right and bottom right
Note: Robert West illustrated Baudelaire's Amoenitates Belgicae, published in Paris by J. Fort in 1925, Les Fleurs du Mal, condemned plays, by the same, published in Paris by Paul Cotinaud in 1931, poems by Léon Vérane in 1950 or The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, published in Paris by A. Sedrowski in 1936.
15 works by the artist, on the theme of caricature, madness and melancholy, are on sale at the gallery.
Provenance: artist's studio funds.
Ref: C5FRX0IKVK