Robert Watbot : Roma (Rome), 1989 (Watercolour and black ink)

By WATBOT  Robert (1942–1998)

Robert Watbot (1942–1998)
Roma (Rome), 1989
Watercolour and black ink (felt-tip)
Dedicated by hand, upper left: “À Yves Guérin”; inscribed “Roma”; signed and dated lower margin

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: nearly the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance). Dated from the collector’s Casino de Dinard period; Watbot was honoured posthumously at the Musée du Château de Dinan, nearby in Brittany.

Description: A vigorous, gestural view of Rome — domes and bell-towers rising against a blue sky, drawn with bold black felt-tip and brush over warm washes of brown, ochre and blue, the whole boldly abstracted in a few sweeping strokes. Robert Watbot was a French painter born in Paris in 1942, trained at St Martin’s School of Art in London, who travelled to Brazil before returning to France; a painter of landscape, still life and the figure, he was the subject of a posthumous homage at the Musée du Château de Dinan in 1999. Signed, dated and dedicated by hand.

Price : 150,00 € ( 170.00 USD )