Lot 174
  • 174

Claude-Emile Schuffenecker

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Claude-Emile Schuffenecker
  • Children Playing with Marbles: two works
  • The oil: signed E Schuffenecker and dated 84 (lower right); the drawing: signed E Schuffenecker (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas; Pencil on paper
  • 21 1/4 by 26 in.;11 by 14 in.
  • 54 by 66 cm; 27.9 by 35.6 cm

Provenance

The oil: Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris
Private Collection
The drawing: Jeanne Schuffenecker, Paris
Jacques Fouquet, Paris
Galerie Anthony d'Offay, Paris, by 1965
Sale: Christie's New York, October 26, 1988, lot 354
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 24, 1990, lot 61
Private Collection

Exhibited

New York, Hammer Galleries, 1970, no. 13

Literature

Jill-Elyse Grossvogel, Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, San Francisco, 2000, nos. 361 and 362, illustrated

Condition

Very good condition. Original canvas. Some minor craquelure near top right corner in green pigments in sky at top left quadrant. Under UV light, there is a 1 inch stroke of inpainting near top left corner. Few other pigments in sky fluoresce but appear to be original.
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