Lot 165
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MAXIMILIEN LUCE | Jardin à Montrouge

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • Jardin à Montrouge
  • Signed Luce (lower right); titled and dated 1879 (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas mounted on board
  • 14 by 15 in.
  • 35.5 by 38 cm
  • Painted in 1876.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
Acquired from the above on March 22, 1999

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Maximilien Luce, 1858-1941: The Evolution of a Post-Impressionist, 1997, no. 4, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Phillipe Cazeau, Maximilien Luce, Paris & Lausanne, 1982, illustrated p. 14
Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 1986, no. 5, illustrated p. 8 (dated 1876)

Condition

The board is sound. There are three vertical cracks in the pigment visible under raking light. There is some minor frame abrasions along all four edges. There are some minor paper accretions in the lower right corner. There is some hairline craquelure in the green pigments near the center of the left edge. Under UV light, there is a layer of discolored varnish but no inpainting is apparent.
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