Live auction - Lot 178
[German school]
Suite of 10 grotesques.
€ 2.000 / 2.500
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Lot description
C. 1600
Drawings, blue ink wash over brown ink pen, inscribed in a double circle in sanguine chalk, on 10 ff. laid paper 31,5 x 21 cm, not signed but attributable to Jooris (?) (numbers in upper right corners, min. foxing).
Grotesque faces in profile of men-beasts showing various expressions (fear, irony, scepticism, cynism...). Probably sketches for ornamental mascarons or tondis, ceramic tiles etc.
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