Lot 312
  • 312

Marcel Gromaire

Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Marcel Gromaire
  • NEW YORK, TIMES SQUARE LA NUIT
  • signé Gromaire et daté 1951 (en bas à gauche)
  • huile sur toile
  • 55 x 46 cm; 21 2/3 x 18 in.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, 1951, no. 5
Paris, Maison de la Pensée Française, 1957, no. 48
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1962, no. 40
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1963, no. 86

Literature

Michel-Louis Conil, Artistes Français en Amérique, l'École de Paris, in Informations et Documents, 1er août 1958, illustré p. 32
Marcel Zahar, Gromaire, Genève, 1961, no. 104, illustré
Frenchman in Manhattan, in Time Atlantic Edition, 30 juillet 1951, p. 30
François Gromaire et Françoise Chibret-Plaussu, Marcel Gromaire: La vie et l'œuvre, Catalogue Raisonné des peintures, Paris, 1993, no. 618, illustré p. 224

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There is no evidence of retouching under ultra-violet light. This work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Gromaire' and dated '1951' (lower left), oil on canvas. Painted in 1951.