Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property of a Private Collector
Georges Valmier
Le Piano
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector
Georges Valmier
1885 - 1937
Le Piano
signed G. VALMIER (lower right)
oil on canvas
79.3 by 98.5 cm. 31 ¼ by 38 ¾ in.
Framed: 100.5 by 119.5 cm. 39 ⅝ by 47 in.
Executed in 1920.
Léonce Rosenberg, Paris (by 1927)
Maurice Sternberg Galleries, Chicago
Private Collection, Chicago
Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1998, lot 182 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2013, lot 212 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Léonce Rosenberg, Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne, Paris, December 1927, no. 40, n.p., illustrated
Denise Bazetoux, Georges Valmier, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1993, no. 44, p. 16, illustrated in colour; p. 50, illustrated