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Lot 456
  • 456

Maximilien Luce

Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • PAYSAGE
  • signed Luce and dated 1903 (lower left)
  • oil on board
  • 25.6 by 36cm., 10 1/8 by 14 1/8 in.

Provenance

Félix Fénéon, Paris
Sale: Palais Galliéra Paris, 4th December 1975
Private Collection, France

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier, Pour le Plaisir, 1970, no. 35

Literature

Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1986, vol. II, no. 497, illustrated p. 124

Condition

Painted on paper, laid down on board. There do not appear to be any signs of retouching under UV examination. There is some slight wear to parts of the extreme edges and an artist's pinhole to the centre of the upper edge. This work is in overall very good condition. Colours: fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though overall brighter in the original.
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