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A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Watercolour on paper, signed lower right FERNAND COUDERC , 230 x 250 mm; artist s caption in pencil to lower margin: -Que faites-vous donc, ami? / Je fais comme l automne: je déshabille la belle nature! ( What are young doing, my friend? I m doing what autumn does: I m undressing beautiful nature! ); an editor s annotation in pencil at upper margin states the illustration was intended for publication on the 25 September or later (no year indicated). A risque painting of a gentleman undressing a coquettish young woman. French painter, illustrator and advertiser Fernand Couderc exhibited at the Salon des Humoristes in 1929, of which he was a member. He collaborated on many humorous and risqué newspapers including Pages Folles, Le Sourire, Paris-Plaisirs, Froufrou, Gens qui Rient, etc. (BENEZIT, Edouard-Joseph Dictionnaire Biographique des Artistes Contemporains )

• Binding: Hardcover

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