Lot 553
  • 553

Maximilien Luce

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • Le TrĂ©port, voiliers au port
  • signed Luce (lower right)
  • oil on paper laid down on canvas
  • 24.2 by 33.2cm., 9 1/2 by 13 1/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Atelier Matignon, Paris
Sale: Christie's, New York, 12th February 1987, lot 49
Monsieur Georges Bemberg

Literature

Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, Catalogue de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1986, vol. II, no. 1940, illustrated p. 461

Condition

Oil on paper, laid down on canvas. There is a layer of transparent varnish in places to the sheet, most prominently along the left edge in conjunction to a hairline crack of separation along the upper part of the left edge. There do not appear to be any traces of retouching visible under UV light. This work is in overall good condition.
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