Lot 15
  • 15

Gustave Loiseau

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustave Loiseau
  • Rue à St. Lunaire
  • Signed G. Loiseau (lower left); dated 1904 (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 20 1/4 by 24 in.
  • 51.4 by 61 cm
  • Painted in 1904.

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London, 1962
John & Clifford Rykens, London
Sale: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London, November 29, 1972, lot 9
Michael F. Drinkhouse, New York
Sale: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 17, 1978, lot 20
Sale: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 14, 1980, lot 113
Private collection

Exhibited

Osaka, Mitzukoshi Gallery, and Tokyo, Maubeni-Lida, Loiseau, 1971-72, no. 13
Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Gustave Loiseau, 1985-86, no. 10, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue

Condition

Oil on canvas, unlined. The picture surface is in generally good condition aside from some very minor, very fine craquelure in the sky and an eraser sized loss to the sky above the chimney near the right side. Under UV light, there are three spots of inpainting in the left-most tree. Some of the red pigments are still active. In overall good condition.
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