Lot 245
  • 245

Wilhelm Gimmi

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Wilhelm Gimmi
  • NATURE MORTE AU CITRON (i) LES TOITS ROSES, ALBI (ii)
  • signé Gimmi (en haut à droite) (i)
    signé Gimmi (en bas à gauche) (ii)
  • huile sur toile (i)
    huile sur carton (ii)
  • 38 x 46 cm; 15 x 18 1/8 in. (i)
  • 41 x 33 cm; 16 1/8 x 13 in. (ii)

Provenance

Galerie Druet, Paris
Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris
Transmis par descendance au propriétaire actuel (i)

Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris
Transmis par descendance au propriétaire actuel (ii)

Exhibited

Paris, Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Gimmi, Peintures récentes, 1939 (i)

Literature

Georges Peillex, Wilhelm Gimmi, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, Zürich, 1972, no. 519 (ii)

Condition

Les toits roses. The board is sound. There are some very thin craquelures in the darker pigments. There is no evidence of retouching under ultra-violet light. This work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Gimmi' (lower right), oil on canvas. (i)

signed 'Gimmi' (lower left), oil on board. Painted in 1927. (ii)