Lot 125
  • 125

Henri Lebasque

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Lebasque
  • Nu assis sur un canapé près de la fenêtre
  • Signed Lebasque (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 21 1/2 by 25 3/4 in.
  • 54.6 by 65.4 cm

Provenance

M. Norman Mason (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent

Literature

Denise Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Neuilly-sur-Marne, 2008, no. 1076, illustrated p. 269

Condition

Work is in excellent condition. Canvas is not lined. Surface is clean. Under UV light: no inpainting is apparent.
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Catalogue Note

Unlike the boldly colored and characteristically flattened images that typify the rest of his oeuvre, Lebasque’s nudes are warmer in palette and treatment. Atmosphere and form are realized through a softening of lines and tonal modeling, ultimately creating an image of the female body as naturalistic, graceful and nearly tangible: “Lebasque’s primary concerns, in the majority of his work, were with simple expression of sensuous surface. He wrestled with the problems of showing wind on water, or of the warmth seeping into a woman’s skin under a sunny sky. It is evident in all of Lebasque’s work as in the group of nude paintings completed at Le Cannet, that Lebasque developed the sureness to define the gains of his early experiments. He achieved an intimate manner of painting those scenes and people most dear to him, which was replete with his personal delight in form and color, and heightened by his contact with fellow painters Matisse and Bonnard, but characteristically his own” (Lisa A. Banner, Lebasque 1865 – 1937, San Francisco, 1986, p. 20).

Fig. 1 Henri Lebasque, Nu à la chemise rose, 1926, oil on canvas, Collection de la Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland