Lot 105
  • 105

Henri Lebasque

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henri Lebasque
  • Odalisque
  • signed Lebasque and indistinctly inscribed (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 80.5 by 116cm., 31 3/4 by 45 5/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Berrerro, Paris
Madame Shatsk, Paris
Greer Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sale: Phillips, New York, 11th November 1985, lot 103
Private Collection, Paris
Alan I. Kay, Maryland
Sale: Christie's, London, 4th December 1990, lot 324
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Salon d'Automne, 1933, n. n. 

Literature

Jacques Guenne, 'L'Art Vivant', December 1933, no. 179, illustrated p. 519
Denise Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque, Catalogue raisonné, Neuilly-sur-Marne, 2008, no. 943, illustrated p. 244

Condition

The canvas is lined. UV examination reveals a few spots of retouching in places predominately to the upper half of the composition, a few lines of retouching vertically across the centre of the canvas, and to parts of the extreme edges due to previous frame rubbing. There are some fine lines of stable craquelure to the thick white pigment close to the sitter's right hip, and some very fine lines in places. Otherwise this work is in overall good condition.
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