Live auction - Lot 325
Postage stamp design for the "Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles".
1896
Hammer price: €
200
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
2 drawings, brown pencil, 28 x 24 cm, 1 sheet (double sided) of wove paper 33 x 25 cm (visible), unsigned, attributed in pencil in top left margin.
Under passe-partout and frame (not studied outside frame).
These designs were made for a commemoration stamp for the The Brussels International Exhibition of 1897. In the end, another design (by Laermans?) was chosen as final product. Mentioning "Extrait d'un carnet de dessin de Laermans [...] 1896".