BERNARD BOUTET DE MONVEL (FRENCH 1881-1949) Deux études pour portraits de Sylvie, la fille de l'artiste each with the artist's 2016 Estate stamp (lower right) pencil, unframed 65.1 x 37.5 cm (25 5/8 x 14 3/4 in; 34.8 x 49.8 (13 7/8 x 19 5/8 in) PROVENANCE: Succession Boutet de Monvel The artist's Estate sale, Collection Boutet de Monvel, Sotheby's, Paris, 5-6 April 2016, lot 223 (part lot) Purchased at the above sale by the present owner One of the drawings depicts Sylvie playing with her dog, Champagne, a preparatory study for two paintings executed by the artist in Nemours in 1944 and exhibited in New York at the Knoedler Gallery as part of Monvel's exhibition Profiles in 1947. (2)