Lot 6
  • 6

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
  • La soif en moisson
  • signed L. Lhermitte (lower right)
  • pastel on paper laid down on canvas
  • 21 1/2 by 17 3/4 in.
  • 54.6 by 45 cm

Provenance

Allard (no. 6825)
Le Roy
Wormster
Private Collection, Canada

Literature

Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 280, no. 697, illustrated

Condition

This work is on paper and laid down on canvas. The surface is in pristine condition and there is a small tear from a dent on the extreme right edge, anda similar impact in the top right hand corner.
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