Live auction - Lot 139
"Een hippy".
ELIAS, Etienne
€ 250 / 400
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Lot description
1967
Couloured pencil drawing, 59 x 43,5 cm, wove paper 70,5 x 53 cm (visible part); signed, dated and dedicated in black pencil.
Framed (a few faint fox.). Not studied ouside frame.
Vivid colours for this portrait of a Renaissance man inscribed in a brown frame and depicted as a hippie, with inscription "S. Hippy.Hipelia" in green pencil to the right (a pun on "Hippie" and "Elias" ?). E. Elias (Ostend 1936-2007) was a Belgian painter, pastellist and draughtsman, who counted among the "new figurative", the European variant of pop art.
Prov. D. Edebau, a gallery owner (autograph dedication).