Lot 816
  • 816

Luigi Loir

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Luigi Loir
  • La FĂȘte Nautique
  • signed and dated 73 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 16 by 21 5/8 in.; 40.6 by 55 cm.

Provenance

Hôtel Drouot, Paris;
Acquired at the above by the previous owner in 1956;
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Chapentier, Paysages d'Eau Douce, 1945;
Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Exposition d'Art Français, June, 1946.

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Exposition d'Art Français, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1946, no. 156, illustrated.

Condition

The canvas is unlined. The surface is in generally good condition aside from a dirty varnish that has yellowed and darkened over time. There is a repair to canvas of approximately 1 square inch in the center left and an area of repaint in the sky in the upper right from ma possible tear. These two repairs have repaint that is visible under bright light. Upon close inspection black dots are ground are showing through the grass in the lower 2 1/2 inches of the painting. Under UV; inpainting is visible in the center left side to address the canvas repair and in the upper right side in the sky. Removal of the old varnish and turned repaint is recommended.
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