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Lot 17
  • 17

Lucas van Uden

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lucas van Uden
  • The four seasons
  • Summer signed with initials lower centre: L.V.V
    Autumn signed indistinctly with initials lower right: L...V
  • a set of four, all oil on panel

Provenance

Phillip van Ommeren (1900-1994), Rotterdam;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 May 1958, lot 97 (as by 'Lucas van Uden' to Spiller for £950);
Fernand Stuyck (1887-1960), Antwerp;
His sale, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 7 December 1960, lot 134;
Private collection, Brussels, 1960-63;
With Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London.

Exhibited

Delft, Stedelijke Museum, on loan from 1952-3 (lent by Phillip van Ommeren).

Condition

Each panel is uncradled and each has a very slight convex bow. For the most part the landscapes in each are well preserved, the only exception being the snow surrounding the figures in the winter landscape in which there is some retouching. The sky in each painting however has been extensively retouched in the blues. The paintings are ready to hang.
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