Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (1865-1953) - Lot 33

Lot n° 33
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Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (1865-1953) - Lot 33
Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (1865-1953) Claude Pfeiffer as a child, drawing Pastel, signed lower left Height: 81 cm 81 cm ; Width : 65 cm Children of the Parisian banker Jules Rheims and his wife Marguerite Getting, Fanny (1900-1987) and Jean-Jules Rheims (1902-1983) are about 6 and 4 years old. In 1922, Fanny married Jean-Paul Pfeiffer, from a Parisian business family; Jean-Jules married Line Louis-Dreyfus in 1930, daughter of Louis, a prominent figure in politics and the grain trade in the first half of the 20th century. Jean-Jules, active in business (banking and plantations) was, in the 1930s, a bobsleigh champion in a team with Baron Philippe de Rothschild. From his marriage to Line Louis-Dreyfus, the auctioneer Philippe Rheims was born, who was for a time associated with his relative Maurice Rheims. A few years after her marriage, Fanny Rheims (Mrs. Pfeiffer) asked Lévy-Dhurmer to portray her young son Claude here, in the late 1920s.
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