110 - Nathalie Painting, July 28, 1963

Nathalie Painting, July 28, 1963 Watercolor Signed and inscribed by hand: “To Yves Guérin” Dimensions: Paper: 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: TBD Condition: good condition, unframed Provenance: Yves Guérin’s guestbook, compiled between 1963 and 1992 (from a single collection). Both spouses appear in the book: Roger Forissier (here and no. 38) and his wife, the painter Nathalie Chabrier (no. 3). Description: The artist’s wife, the painter Nathalie Chabrier, at her easel—an intimate subject that Forissier also depicted in a signed lithograph (“The Painter in Her Studio”). A member of the Young Painters of the New School of Paris (alongside Buffet, Jansem, and Boitel) and a former resident artist at the Casa de Velázquez, Forissier was painting on the Riviera in 1962–1964, the context for this 1963 dedication. Watercolor executed and hand-signed in the collector’s guestbook.