Provenance : The studio collection of Marevna. Subject treated in 1937 & 1944 in the French Riviera. 

Seated man smoking a pipe 1937 Juan les Pins Hommage to Caran d’Ache = Pencil, red chalk  dated 1937 “Le Dimanche” located in “Juan les Pins” on back 24,6x16,9cm.

Paysan assis avec pipe – Karan Dash (titled on back) 1944 Cagnes Pencil & watercolour with later additions of coloured markers and blue ink Signed, dated, located ‘Cagnes’ in green marker over traces of blue pen. Inscribed indistinctively in green marker & blue pen on the reverse - 22,5x16,5cm