(Portrait of woman in a flowered hat)

 

Georges Villa

  1883 - 1965 (biography)

1905  

pencil drawing 

6 1/4 x 4" image 

pencil, right margin 

 

inscribed "Nice 05" after the signature 

 

ivory laid 

 

 

7749 

$175.00 

From a San Francisco estate which included a number of items related to Russian Imperial General d'Osnobichine, who was a friend of Villa's and was himself an artist. Of particular note is that there existed in this collection three versions of this same portrait by Villa. It's unknown if the sitter was a friend or simply a woman whose side profile he was especially taken with.