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PROBABLY BY JOE EULA (1925-2004)
Fashion sketch
inscribed and dated 'Balmain / the Prettiest Ball gown in Paris / 88 / Louis XVI' (upper left), signed 'Eula' lower left
pencil on paper
23 x 1712 in. (58.5 x 44.5 cm.) (sight size)
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Sale Room Notice
Please note that this sketch is probably by Joe Eula, not Erik Mortensen as previously stated.
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Executed in 1988, possibly of the 1988 spring/summer couture collection.

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