Lot 132
  • 132

Raoul Ubac

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 EUR
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Description

  • Raoul Ubac
  • Formes pleines II
  • signé et daté; signé, daté et titré au dos
  • gouache sur papier
  • 65 x 51 cm; 25 5/8 x 20 1/8 in.
  • Exécuté en 1959.

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris
Larry Aldrich, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Vente: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 16 mars 1978, lot 104
J. Karel P. van Stuijvenberg, Caracas
Gallery Lasés, Paris
Collection particulière, Paris

Exhibited

Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Contemporary Paintings collected since 1951 by Larry Aldrich, 1964, no.65, p.16, illustré Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, no.220
Sao Paulo, 18e Bienal de Sao Paulo, 1985
Malmö, Konsthall; Stockholm, Liljevachs, Cobra, 1986, catalogue no.177
Liège, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Cobra, 1993, catalogue, p.243, no.3, illutsré
Amstelveen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, The Language of Cobra, 1996

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration, although the colours are This work is in very good condition. The sheet is taped to the mount along the upper edge. It is executed on a thick handmade paper. Edges are originally irregular. There are two superficial losses of paint, one along the lower edge, the other one in the lower left corner, visible under close inspection. There is a minor hole (3mm of diameter) in hte sheet along the right edge.
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Catalogue Note

signed and dated; signed, dated and titled on the back; gouache on paper. Executed in 1959.