Marius BORGEAUD (1861-1924 )Woman reading, circa 1921Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. 41 x 33 cmProvenance : - Galerie Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris. - Bibliography: Bernard Wyder with the collaboration of Jacques Dominique Rouiller, Marius Borgeaud: l'homme, l'œuvre 1861-1924: Catalogue Raisonné, Lausanne, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1999, reproduced on p. 163 under number 260. The vase on this canvas also appears in Still Life no. 207 of the Catalogue Raisonné reproduced on p. 137 . The reader is in the artist's last apartment, 43 rue Lamarck in Paris. We thank Mr Jacques Dominique Rouiller for the information he provided.

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