Lot 236
  • 236

Maximilien Luce

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • Chalo-Saint-Mars, La Sablière de Beaumont
  • Signed Luce and dated 1905 (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 24 7/8 by 21 in.
  • 63 by 53.2 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, France

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Druet, Maximilien Luce, 1906, no. 6 (probably)

Literature

Philippe Cazeau, Maximilien Luce, Paris, 1982, illustrated p. 134 (titled La Sablière de Beaumont, Chalo Saint-Mars)
Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 1986, no. 1255, illustrated p. 312

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. Canvas is not lined. Colors are bright and the surface is richly textured. Under UV light one pindot of inpainting is visible at center of the top edge, otherwise fine.
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