Cornucopia of works on paper reveals early 20th French gem
Large numbers of lots identified only as folders, boxes and albums full of prints, watercolours, maps and so on offered in a Brightwells (17.5% buyer’s premium) sale of July 5 included one disarmingly catalogued, in full, as ‘Sketches, Watercolours, Prints of Naked Ladies, chiefly’. It sold at £500.
The lot that caught my eye, however, was a five volume work called État général des tapisseries de…