Sitting Nude.

Drawing, sanguine, 19,8 x 13,3 cm, tinted wove paper, signed in pencil at lower left corner (sm. def. at upper right corner).

Under passe-partout.

Willem Paerels (1878-1962) was a Dutch-Belgian artist whose style evolved from impressionism, over fauvism to expressionism in the 1930s. This fine drawing can loosely be dated at appr. 1910, when compared with other drawings by the artist during this period.
Ref. Arto 2000, II, p. 195.