Lot 267
  • 267

Alphonse Osbert French, 1857-1939

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alphonse Osbert
  • Brume d'Automne
  • signed Osbert l.l.; titled and dated 1928 on the verso

  • oil on canvas

  • 33.5 by 55.2cm., 13¼ by 21¾in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Yolande Osbert, his daughter
Galerie Coligny, Paris (acquired from the above in 1989)
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1989 

Exhibited

Paris, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1928, no. 1505
Paris, Galerie Coligny, Alphonse Osbert, Exposition du cinquantenaire, 1989, no. 33

Literature

Recorded in the artist's ledger under no. 1074

Condition

Original canvas. Some of the pigments fluoresce under ultraviolet light though these do not appear to be retouchings. The artist's pinholes are evident to the corners of the work otherwise the paint surface is in very good condition. Held in its original plaster moulded gilt frame.
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Catalogue Note

Brume d'automne is a particularly resonant example of the landcapes Osbert painted on the banks of the river Allier after 1917.