Late 20th Century Surrealist Watercolor and Gouache, Colonnade Interior With Reclining Nude and Desert View

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An original watercolour and gouache over pen-and-ink and graphite on heavy deckle-edged paper: a stage-like interior of four green marbled … Read more An original watercolour and gouache over pen-and-ink and graphite on heavy deckle-edged paper: a stage-like interior of four green marbled columns with gilt capitals and swagged pelmets, opening onto a bare desert with a windmill under a yellow sky. Inside, a reclining nude on a green button-tufted daybed beside a gilt harp, a polar-bear rug and a bronze figural lamp, on a hand-stippled leopard-spot floor.

Unsigned in the visible sheet; the only mark is a small embossed blind stamp at lower right, most likely the papermaker's. Offered as an unattributed later 20th-century work.

Floated under glass with a linen mat in a silver-gilt moulded frame. Framed approx. 22" x 30"; sheet approx. 16.5" x 24". See less