Lot 41
  • 41

Maxime Maufra

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Maxime Maufra
  • Les nuages blancs, Rosporden
  • Signed Maufra and dated 1900 (lower right); titled (on the stretcher)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 25 7/8 by 32 in.
  • 65.7 by 81.3 cm.
  • Painted in 1900.

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on December 21, 1900)
Galerie de Granges, Geneva, by 1983
Wally Findlay Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Tableaux de Maxime Maufra, 1901, no. 48
Geneva, Galerie de Granges, Les Post-Impressionistes de la Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1982, no. 1

Literature

Arséne Alexandre, Maxime Maufra, peintre marin et rustique, Paris, 1926, p. 201

Condition

The canvas is unlined and slightly slack in the stretcher. The picture surface is in generally good condition with bright colors. Under UV: no apparent signs of inpainting.
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