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Louis Marcoussis

La Grande Mouche

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March 5, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Louis Marcoussis

1878 - 1941


La Grande Mouche

signed marcoussis (lower right); signed marcoussis, titled and dated 1937 (on the reverse)

18 ⅛ by 15 in.

46 by 38.1 cm.

Executed in 1937.

Helena Rubinstein, New York & Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 11 May 1967, lot 134 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Esther Blumstein, New York (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Adrien Miatlev, Cahiers d'Art, nos. 6 & 7, Paris 1937, p. 233, illustrated

Jean Lafranchis, Marcoussis: Sa vie, son oeuvre, Catalogue complet des peintures, fixés sur verre, aquarelles, dessins, gravures, Paris 1961, no. P.233, p. 277, illustrated

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Marcoussis, 1937, no. 20

London, Cork Street Gallery, Marcoussis, 1939, no. 1