Lot 7
  • 7

François Bocion

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 CHF
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Description

  • François Bocion
  • Animation aux quais de Vevey
  • Signed lower left
  • Oil on canvas
  • 46 x 73.5 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland

Exhibited

Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Bocion, 28 September-26 November 1978

Literature

Michel Reymondin, Catalogue raisonné de François Bocion, Pays-Bas 1989, p. 89, no. 208, ill. This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by Michel Reymondin.

Condition

The painting is relined. There are abrasions throughout, especially along the skyline (due to cleaning). The paint layer has thinned throughout the canvas. Small retouchings have been made to the sky and also along the upper margin, which are visible under UV light. One retouching has been made along the lower margin in lower right corner. Otherwise in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Bocion depicts himself and his wife boarding their boat alongside a fisherman on the quay at Vevey, set against a beautiful view of the Dents-du-Midi.