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Lot 52
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Antoni Clavé

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Description

  • Antoni Clavé
  • Femme aux Pastèques
  • signed and dated 50; signed and dated 50 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 88.3 by 116.2cm.
  • 34 3/4 by 45 3/4 in.

Provenance

Ruth Page, Chicago (acquired directly from the artist)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, Ruth Page Collection, 7 November 1991, lot 14
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Ecole de Paris, 1951
Geneva, Musée Rath, Clavé, 25 ans de peinture, 1961, p. 37, no. 49, illustrated

Literature

Pierre Seghers, Clavé, Barcelona 1972, p. 79, no. 57, illustrated
Jean-Luc Mercié, Clavé, Paris 1980, p. 39, no. 21, illustrated

Catalogue Note

This work belongs to an important group of still-life and figure paintings executed in the early 1950s. It was painted by Clavé in Ruth Page's Montparnasse studio, who named her house there 'Les Trois Pastèques' after this picture.