Lot 46
  • 46

Louis Valtat

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Louis Valtat
  • Les Chênes de Dodone
  • Stamped L. Valtat (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 98 1/2 by 118 in.; 250.2 by 299.7 cm
  • Painted in 1893.

Provenance

Musée de Petit Palais, Geneva
Private Collection (acquired from the above when deaccessioned)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2001)

Exhibited

Paris, Palais des Arts Liberaux, Salon des Artistes Independents, 1897, no. 1156
Geneva, Petit Palais, Louis Valtat, rétrospective centenaire (1869-1969), 1969, no. 1, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue
Centre Culturel et Artistique de Montrouge, Louis Valtat, 1987, no. 3, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue
Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Louis Valtat (1869-1952), exposition rétrospective, 1995, pl. I, no. 5, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue

Literature

Dominique Lobstein, Dictionnaire des Independants, vol. III, Dijon, 2003, listed p. 1697 (dated 1897)
Musée Fleury (exhibition catalogue) Dossier de presse: Louis Valtat à l'aube du fauvisme, Lodève, 2011, illustrated p. 17
Musée Paul Valéry (exhibition catalogue), Valtat: Independant et Precurseur, Sète, 2011, illustrated p. 194

Condition

Oil on unprimed canvas, lined. Canvas slightly slack on the stretcher. Right vertical tacking edge is tattered with numerous losses. Surface in generally good condition, surface darkened by dirt. A few scattered abrasions and losses, mostly at extreme edges.
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