Rachel Baes (1912-1983)
Femme avec du Poulet, c. 1947
Coloured chalks on paper
12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25 cm)
Signed with initials, bottom right
£2,750.00
With its confined, narrowing hallway and sense of claustrophobia, this work has much in common with Rêve Très Ancien (1947) in the RAW Collection. The drawing shows an airless and...
With its confined, narrowing hallway and sense of claustrophobia, this work has much in common with Rêve Très Ancien (1947) in the RAW Collection. The drawing shows an airless and muddling interior, doors ajar, and yet the scene is not as angst-ridden as other compositions by the artist, owing to the large and comic chicken that pecks at the floorboards. The red of the chicken comb is echoed in the flush of the figure's cheek, as well as the leaves of the plant, shown flat against the wall.