Lot 116
  • 116

Félix Labisse 1905-1982

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Félix Labisse
  • La Pierre de Foudre
  • signed Labisse (lower left); signed, titled, and dated 1955 (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 1/2 by 18 1/4 in.
  • 54.5 by 46.5 cm.

Provenance

Collection Lizzola, Milan
Private Collection, Milan
Manzoni Galleria d'Arte, Milan
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1974

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie de France, 1957
Milan, Manzoni Galleria d'Arte, 1974, illustrated on cover of catalogue

Literature

Isy Brachot, Labisse Catalogue de l'oeuvre Peint 1927-1979,  no. 289, p. 156, illustrated

Condition

Canvas is not lined. In good condition aside from frame abrasion at edges, particularly at lower center where a nail abraded the canvas and caused paint loss and a small puncture (total area approx. 1/4 in.); spec of loss at center left edge. Pigment separation to red in center. Minute and stable craquelure in blue background. Under UV: possible signs of inpaint in aforementioned cracquelure, heavy varnish). Framed under glass.
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