Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

187 c GEORGES LEPAPE. “Michelin a Carrolles en costume marin.” Gouache and watercolor over graphite. 1917. 305x159 mm; 12x6 1 / 4 inches, on 12 1 / 4 x9-inch sheet. Signed “Geo” in lower left image. Edges relined on verso. Hinged to matte; framed. Ex- collection Claude Lepape, to private collections. Page 88, Claude Lepape and Thierry Deffert, “Georges Lepape ou l’élégance illustrée” (Paris: Herscher, 1983). [3,000/4,000] 188 c GEORGES LEPAPE. “La Grive.” Costume sketches for “L’Âge d’or des bêtes”(The Golden Age of the Beasts), a pantomime ballet of the Rip review presented at the Théâtre Marigny, Paris, 1916. Gouache, watercolor and graphite on paper mounted to board. 356x229 mm; 14x9 inches. Signed and dated lower right and titled lower left. Matted and framed to 20x15 inches. [3,500/5,000] 189 c GEORGES LEPAPE. “La Grue Huppée.” Costume design and sketch for Mademoiselle Pretty Myrtile (the Crested Crane) in “L’Âge d’or des bêtes”(The Golden Age of the Beasts), a pantomime ballet of the Rip review presented at the Théâtre Marigny, Paris, 1916. Watercolor and gouache over graphite. 356x222 mm; 14x8 3 / 4 inches, laid to 18x12 1 / 2 -inch sheet. Signed and dated “Geo. Lepape, 1916” in lower right image. Hinged to matte. Exhibited: Devambez Gallery, Paris, 1920; “Georges Lepape,” Paris, Luxembourg Gallery, 1978 [4,000/6,000] 187 188 189