Lot 206
  • 206

Félix Labisse

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Félix Labisse
  • Entrée du Corps de Bataille
  • Signed Labisse (lower right); signed, dated and titled (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 45 by 57 1/2 in.
  • 114.2 by 146 cm

Provenance

Sam Salz, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Nathan L. Halpern, New York
A gift from the above in 1974

Exhibited

Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 12ème Salon de mai, 1956, n.n.
Paris, Galerie de France, Félix Labisse, 1957, n.n.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Recent Acquisitions, 1975, n.n.

Literature

Les Beaux-arts, Brussels, 1957, illustrated n.p.
Patrick Waldberg, Félix Labisse, Brussels, 1970, illustrated p. 22
Isy Brachot, ed., Labisse, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, 1927-79, Brussels, 1979, no. 293, illustrated p. 159

Condition

Work is in excellent condition. The canvas has not been lined. The surface is nicely textured and the colors are rich and vibrant. Minor old frame abrasion is apparent, notably in the corners. There is a nailhead-sized loss to extreme edge at top left and some shrinkage visible in the red pigment of the claw at top center. Under UV: no inpainting is apparent.
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