Lot 337
  • 337

Maximilien Luce

Estimate
35,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • Méréville, le troupeau de moutons
  • stamped Luce (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 65.5 by 92cm., 25 3/4 by 36 1/4 in.

Provenance

M. Stievenard, Paris
Private Collection, Japan (sale: Sotheby's, Paris, 13th December 2007, lot 116)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owners

Exhibited

(Probably) Paris, Galerie Druet, Maximilien Luce, 1906, no. 22
(Probably) Rotterdam, Volksuniversiteit, 1949
(Probably) Utrecht, Central Museum, Werken uit het Rijksmuseum Kröller-Muller, 1950
(Probably) Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Maximilien Luce, 1966, no. 61

Literature

Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 2005, vol. III, no. 658, illustrated p. 162

Condition

The canvas is not lined. Examination under UV light reveals some lines of retouching at the upper right corner and some further small spots and lines of retouching predominantly in the lower right quadrant to in fill areas of exposed canvas. There is a vertical stretcher bar mark to the centre of the canvas and along the right edge. There are some tiny fly spots towards the centre of the left edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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