Jean PUY (1876-1960) Seated Redheaded Woman, circa 1903 Oil on canvas, signed twice in the lower left corner and bearing the stamp of the Vollard estate on the back H. 73 cm - L. 60 cm Provenance : Former Ambroise Vollard Collection Sale at Drouot-Montaigne, by Maître Briest, May 19, 1992, n°6 of the catalog, reproduced in colors p. 8 Bibliography: Collective, under the direction of Suzanne Limouzi and Louis Fressonnet-Puy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint de Jean Puy, Roanne, Les Amis de Jean Puy, 2001, referenced under number 10614 and reproduced (the image reversed) page 63

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