Lot 125
  • 125

Jean Lurçat

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Lurçat
  • Sans titre
  • Signed Lurçat (lower right); signed again and dated New York Dec 1928 (on the reverse)
  • Oil and sand on canvas
  • 29 7/8 by 50 1/8 in.
  • 76 by 127.5 cm
  • Painted in 1928.

Provenance

Mr. T. Catesby Jones
Mrs. Louisa Brook Jones (gifted by the above before 1950)
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (bequest from the above in 1968 and sold: Christie's, New York, November 2, 2011, lot 351)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, on loan, 1930

Literature

P. Elsen, ed., "College Museum Notes," Art-Journal, no. XXVII, Summer 1968, p. 412

Condition

Oil on unlined canvas.The picture surface is in generally good condition aside from a dirty varnish. There are two minor discolorations in the upper left corner, both of which fluoresce under UV light. Otherwise, there are no apparent inpaints visible under UV light.
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