Lot 446
  • 446

Jacques Villon

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jacques Villon
  • La lutte, le chaos
  • signed Jacques Villon and dated 39 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 99.6 by 80.8cm., 39 1/4 by 31 7/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris
Svensk Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
Acquired by the father of the present owner in 1952

Exhibited

Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Från Cézanne till Picasso, 1954

Literature

Daniel Robbins (ed.), Jacques Villon, Massachusetts, 1976, no. 129a, illustrated p. 150

Condition

The canvas is not lined and there do no appear to be any traces of retouching visible under UV light. Some gentle frame rubbing to the upper and lower extreme edges. Very minor fine lines of stable craquelure predominantly to the light purple background (centre left and upper right). Some fine lines of stable craquelure with some associated paint loss to the lower right corner). This work is in overall good original condition.
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