Louis Valtat

Femme cousant dans le jardin

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March 11, 07:28 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Connecticut Collection

Louis Valtat

1869 - 1952

Femme cousant dans le jardin

Signed L. Valtat (lower right)

Oil on canvas

31 ⅞ by 26 in. (81 by 66 cm)

Framed: 39 ⅝ by 33 ½ in. (100.6 by 85 cm)

Painted in 1904.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the late Louis-André Valtat.

Hugh Blaker, United Kingdom

Sale: Lasseron & Associé, Paris, December 15, 2008, lot 45

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 2010, lot 407)

Acquired at the above sale

Max Wykes-Joyce, in Art Review, 1966, illustrated p. 245

London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Fauve Painting in France and Abroad, 1951, n.n.
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, La Vie intime, 1966, no. 35
York, City Art Gallery; Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery; Leicester, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery & traveling, Works from the Roland Collection, 1950-76, n.n.
London, Courtauld Institute; Norwich, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts; York, City Art Gallery & traveling, One Man's Choice, 1985, no. 112