Lot 9
  • 9

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
  • Le pêcheur à Chartèves 
  • signed L. Lhermitte. and dated -1899- (lower right)
  • pastel on stretched paper
  • 27 1/4 by 39 1/2 in.
  • 69.2 by 100.3 cm

Provenance

Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris (no. 18986)
Arthur Fouques Duparc (and sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 8, 1919, lot 59, illustrated)
Danthory (acquired at the above sale)
W. Scott & Sons, Montreal

Exhibited

Paris, Éxposition des Pastellistes, 1899 (as le Bateau)

Literature

Monique Le Pelley-Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 231, no. 395, illustrated

Condition

On paper stretched over canvas. Colors are bright and fresh. Pinholes in three corners, and small tear to lower left and lower right corners associated with the pinholes. Small tear in upper right corner. Slight undulation to paper along the right edge. 1 inch section of rubbing along bottom and right edges, slightly visible when work is framed and does not disrupt the image.
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