Lot of 9 unframed drawings including: - Lot 131

Lot of 9 unframed drawings including: - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. View of Algiers. Gouache on paper, signed lower left. Size: 53.5x42 cm. (Mottling). - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. Portrait of a young man. Pencil and pastel on paper, monogrammed lower right. Dimensions: 56.5x46.5 cm. (Humidity, tears). - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. Interior of a villa. Gouache on paper, signed lower right. Dimensions: 50x32.5 cm. (Small tears at edges). - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. Cabaret interior. Ink and white gouache highlights on paper, monogrammed lower right. Dimensions: 28.5x21.5 cm (view). - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. Perseus and Andromeda. Black and white engraving with white gouache highlights, monogrammed lower left. Dimensions: 28x21.5 cm (view). - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. Portrait of a young woman. Sanguine on paper, monogrammed lower right. Size : 45x33 cm. (Rousseurs). - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. Popular scene. Ink and white gouache highlights, monogrammed lower right. Dimensions: 28x21.5 cm (view). - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. The Cyclops Polyphemus watching Acis and Galatea. Ink and white gouache highlights, monogrammed lower right. Dimensions: 28x21.5 cm (view). - Irénée-Henri PIA (1886-1960) known as René PIA. Entombment. Ink and white gouache highlights, monogrammed lower right. Size : 45x32 cm. A graduate of the École des Beaux-arts de Paris, René Pia taught high school in Marseille, then in Paris. In Indochina from 1925, he taught drawing at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat in Saigon, at the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi and finally at the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine. At the 1931 Colonial Exhibition, his students' work was featured in the Salle de l'Instruction Publique in the Angkor Wat palace. Six of his drawings are preserved at the Musée du Quai Branly. A set of unsigned drawings and prints is included: - Satyr and Bacchae. Unsigned black and white print on paper. Sheet size: 33.5x22.5 cm. - Market scene in Indochina. Unsigned black and white print on paper. Sheet size: 47.5x32.5 cm. (Freckles). - Portraits of people from Algeria and Asia. - Preparatory drawings for woodcut subjects.