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Lot 361
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Albert Gleizes

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Albert Gleizes
  • COMPOSITION
  • signed Alb. Gleizes and dated 37 (lower right)
  • gouache on card
  • 32.3 by 20.5cm., 12 3/4 by 8in.

Provenance

Germaine Henry, Paris
Private Collection, Europe

Exhibited

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne & Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, Albert Gleizes 1881-1953, Exposition Rétrospective, 1946-65, no. 76

Condition

Executed on cream card, not laid down and hinged to the overmount alnog the upper edge. There are glue and paper remnants along the upper and lower edges of the card from previous mounting, away from the images and not visible when framed. There are some fine lines of localised craquelure to the green pigment in the upper left corner. Otherwise, this work is in overall good conditon. Colours: Overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though the red central element is slightly more orange in the original.
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