Lot 348
  • 348

Albert Lebourg

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albert Lebourg
  • La Rochelle. Le Bassin du port, ciel très lumineux
  • signed Albert Lebourg and inscribed La Rochelle (lower right) 
  • oil on canvas
  • 38.5 by 61.2cm., 15 1/4 by 24in.

Provenance

Sale: France, 5th March 1920, lot 199bis
M. Haro (acquired before 1923)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 19th October 1988, lot 123
Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 25th June 2002, lot 110
Private Collection, United States (purchased at the above sale)
Monsieur Georges Bemberg

Literature

Léonce Bénédict, Albert Lebourg, Paris, 1923, no. 372

Condition

The canvas is lined. There is a layer of varnish preventing the UV light from fully penetrating however there do not appear to be any signs of retouching. There is a fleck of paint loss to the sky in the upper right quadrant. This work is in overall good condition.
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