Henri Lebasque

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 12, 1970, lot 124bis
Private collection, London
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 1988, lot 93
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. There is a faint horizontal stretcher bar mark at center and along sides. Under UV, there is no apparent inpainting.
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Nu de dos devant la fenêtre eloquently portrays one of Lebasque's favorite subjects, the female nude. Lisa Banner highlights the importance of the nude in Lebasque's oeuvre, "Lebasque displays this model at ease in the sunny interiors of his house at Le Cannet, in various close and revealed poses, full of gentle curves in movement and stroke of colors... Henri Lebasque invites the viewer into this intimate and private world, laden with the power of suggestion and seduction... These women softened and full as the bodies of Renoir's nudes, have a substance and naturalism which make them immediately pleasing. They are presented in a manner to suggest the artist's ease with his model and her naturalness with him" (Lisa Banner & Peter Fairbanks, Henri Lebasque 1865-1937 (exhibition catalogue), San Francisco, 1986, p. 74). The present work highlights Lebasque's fascination with not only the portrayal of the female nude, but highlights his delight in depicting intimate interiors.