Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Marcel Gromaire
Fenêtre sur la mer
Auction Closed
March 5, 04:45 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Marcel Gromaire
1892 - 1971
Fenêtre sur la mer
signed Gromaire and dated 1929 (upper left); signed GROMAIRE, titled, dated 1929 and numbered 291 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
100 by 80.8 cm. 39⅜ by 31¾ in.
Executed in 1929.
Galerie Pierre, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired by 1938)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 December 1941, lot 73 (forced liquidation following the ‘Aryanization’ of Galerie Bernheim-Jeune)
John Van der Klip, Belgium (acquired from the above sale; financial settlement to the Bernheim family in 1953)
Galerie Drouant-David, Paris (acquired by 1978)
Thence by descent to the family of the present owner
Pittsburgh, Carneigie Institute, The 1938 International Exhibition of Paintings, 1938, no. 177, pl. 75, n.p., illustrated (titled Window on the Sea)
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Plaisirs de la campagne, 1954, no. 87, n.p., listed
Paris, Forum des Halles, Paris, patrie des peintres, 1978, no. 56, p. 67, illustrated in colour (titled Femme devant la fenêtre and dated 1930)
François Gromaire and Françoise Chibret-Plaussu, Marcel Gromaire, La vie et l'œuvre, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, Paris, 1993, no. 293, pp. 128-29, illustrated
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