BARONNE HÉLÈNE D'OETTINGEN DITE FRANÇOIS ANGIBOULT... Lot n° 47
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Composition aux papillons
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
89 x 85 cm - 35 x 33 1/2 in.
PROVENANCE Private collection, France "Of Baltic origin, enjoying great wealth, this strong goddess [Baroness Hélène d'Oettingen] lived in the company of her brother
Serge Jastrebzoff, whom Picasso, unable to pronounce his name, had christened J'apostrophe, and who was to have a fine career as a painter on the fringes of Cubism under the name of Serge
Ferrat [sic]. There was a taste for pseudonyms in this family: painter, poet, novelist, the baroness signed her works sometimes Léonard
Pieux, sometimes Roch Grey or Françoise [sic] d'Angiboult. As a patron of the arts, she had bought the Soirées de Paris from André Billy and entrusted its management to Apollinaire [...]
Grateful for the trust placed in him, Apollinaire brought his friends to the Baroness's soirées, that is to say, all the young, daring and innovative people of Paris, which gave them an exceptional sparkle.
These meetings, which brought together Picasso,
Braque, Léger, Delaunay, Brancusi, Severini,
Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Pierre Reverdy,
Georges Duthuit, Willhelm Uhde, were sometimes lively and we witnessed homeric battles between the Futurists and the Cubists."
Jean-Paul Crespelle, Modigliani : les femmes, les amis, l'oeuvre, Presses de la Cité, Paris : 1969, pp. 140 and 141
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