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Lot 12
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Léo Gausson 1860-1944

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Description

  • Léo Gausson
  • Forest Scene (Undergrowth)
  • signed and dated 1888 lower right
  • oil on panel
  • 12 1/2 by 10 1/2 in.
  • 31.8 by 26.8 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection, France; Wildenstein & Co., New York; Private Collection, Michigan, acquired from the above in the late 1960s; by descent to the present owner, son of the previous

Exhibited

London, Wildenstein, Seurat and His Contemporaries, Jan. 20 - Feb. 27, 1937, no. 17; New York, Wildenstein & Co., Seurat and his Friends, Nov. 18 - Dec. 26, 1953, cat. no. 101 (illustrated in catalogue, p. 38, incorrectly captioned as no. 100); New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Neo-Impressionism, Feb. -  April 1968, cat. no. 30, (illustrated in catalogue, p. 60)

Literature

Jean Sutter, Ed., The Neo Impressionists, Greenwich, CT., 1970, illustrated in color, p. 167 (titled Undergrowth);  L. Hautecour, Georges Seurat, Milan, 1972, p.78;