Lot 260
  • 260

Gustave Loiseau

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustave Loiseau
  • La Maison des soeurs, Pontoise
  • Signed G. Loiseau and dated 1924 (lower right); dated 1924 (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas 
  • 21 3/8 by 25 5/8 in.
  • 54.2 by 65.1 cm

Provenance

Durand-Ruel & Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (acquired from the artist on March 20, 1924)
Wally Findlay Galleries, Inc., New York & Chicago (acquired from the above on March 15, 1977)
Private Collection, Florida (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, February 11, 2004, lot 13)
Acquired at the above sale 

Exhibited

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Loiseau, 1963, no. 28

Condition

Canvas is unlined. The surfaces bears a rich and textured impasto. Some minor frame abrasion at the extreme edges. Under UV light a few tiny strokes of inpainting are visible at places along the extreme bottom and top edges, otherwise fine. This work is in very good condition.
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