Lot 149
  • 149

Maximilien Luce

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • Le cordonnier, Mansarde à la Glacière
  • Signed and dated Luce 1883 (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 19 5/8 by 24 in.
  • 50 by 61 cm

Provenance

Maurice Robinot, Paris
Private Collection, France
Sale: Piasa, June 27, 2007, lot 3

Exhibited

(Probably) Paris, Galerie de Neo-Impressionnistes, Tableaux de M. Luce and aquarelles de Signac, 1894, no. 16
Paris, Galerie Bernheim, M. Luce, no. 55
Grand Palais, 76ième Salon des Artistes Indépendents, 1965, no. 1875

Literature

Edmund Pilon, La Plume, Paris, 1894, no. 135, p. 504
Georges Turpin, L'Acropole, Revue Indépendante des Lettres et des Arts, 1951, no. 12
Philippe Cazeau, M. Luce, Paris, 1982, p. 22 
Jean Bouin-Luce and Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, Catalogue raisonné de l'Oeuvre peint, vol. 2, Paris, 1986, no. 31, p. 14, illustrated p. 15 

Condition

Very Good Condition. Lined canvas. The suface is clean. Under UV light there are a few scattered dots of inpainting in background with one in upper right corner, otherwise fine.
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