Artist: Roger de La Fresnaye (French, 1885 - 1925).
Title: "L'officier au bonnet de police [preliminary drawing]".
Medium: Pen and ink drawing on paper.
Date: Composed c1917.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (260 x 206 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in ink, lower right recto; the annotation "c 3" in red pencil, upper right corner, recto; collector ink stamps, verso. Drawn on pale cream smooth wove paper. Very good condition; uneven left edge; vertical creasing left edge, not into image; brownish smudge in the image, lower left corner. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Paul Chadourne, "Notes sur Roger de La Fresnaye", Cahiers d'Art, vol. 3, no. 8, 1928, illustrated p. 320 [the finished drawing]; Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye, Neuchâtel, 1969, no. 250, illustrated p. 186 [the finished drawing]. Exhibition(s): Detroit, Institute of Art, Selected Exhibition of the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Collection, 1937, no. 154, titled Zouave [the finished drawing]. Provenance: If you have a genuine interest in bidding on this work kindly send an email to: provenance@stanfordauctioneers.com for provenance information and additional image(s). Comment(s): Our La Fresnaye example is a preliminary drawing to the finished drawing of the same title. That drawing, composed with pen and ink with wash and pencil and measuring 12” x 7.63” (30.48 x 19.38cm), was sold for $17,500 at Sotheby’s New York, October 4, 2012, lot #23. [30522-2-8000]

Very good condition; uneven left edge; vertical creasing left edge, not into image; brownish smudge in the image, lower left corner