Lot 106
  • 106

Léon Arthur Tutundjian 1906-1968

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Léon Arthur Tutundjian
  • Painting in a Surrealist Landscape
  • signed TUTUNDJIAN  and dated 1944  (lower right); inscribed TUTUNDJIAN 20 Rue de Santeuil 20 Paris (on the stretcher)
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 1/2 by 32 1/4 in.
  • 65 by 82 cm.

Provenance

Private Estate, Aix-en-Provence
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981

Literature

Gladys C. Fabre, Tutundjian, Paris, 1994, plate 129, p. 148, illustrated

Condition

generally good condition, canvas unlined, lightly soiled, a few areas of minor craquelure, under UV light a few patches of inpainting around pool and under signature
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist being prepared by Alain Le Gaillard.