French School.

one depicting a poor soul bent over in pain before a table laid with a tantalising roast chicken and a loaf of bread, his head wrapped in a spotted handkerchief as he clutches his cheek for comfort, while the other depicts the same suffering soul with head wrapped in spotted handkerchief, tipping backwards in a dentist’s chair in recoil from the powerful tug that has finally extracted his rotten tooth, his mouth now turned up at the ends in a smile of relief, as the hapless dentist falls heavily on his backside with the opposite force, still clutching the tooth aloft in his pliers,

silhouettes in black découpage each on a contemporary cream wove support, the handkerchief and the food added in pen and ink with watercolour, the first 160 x 215mm. (6 1/4 x 8 1/2 in), the second 200 x 265 mm. (7 7/8 x 10 1/2 in), both indisctinctly signed and inscribed ‘silhouette originale’ in the lower right corner of the support sheet,