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Lot 396
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Amédée Ozenfant

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Amédée Ozenfant
  • Maternité or Mère et Fille
  • inscribed Ozenfant (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 98.5 by 56.3cm., 38 3/4 by 22 1/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Katia Granoff, Cannes
Sale: Loudmer, Paris, 23rd February 1997, lot 224
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Pierre & Margaret Guénégan, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint de Amédée Ozenfant, London, 2012, no. 1930/004, illustrated p. 440

Condition

The canvas is not lined, and there appear to be no signs of retouching visible under UV light. The figures are painted extremely thickly to create a relief effect, and there are fine lines of craquelure, which appear to be stable, most prominently to the thick white surface with some associated paint losses and a further few lines of craquelure to the figures. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though the dark-brown is more nutty and the background is slightly warmer in the original.
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