Lot 139
  • 139

Maximilien Luce

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • Vase vert aux fleurs multicolores and Village pres de la Rivière: A double-sided painting
  • Signed Luce (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 28 3/4 by 23 3/4 in.
  • 73 by 60.3 cm

Provenance

Sale: Blanche, Versailles, November 13, 1974, lot 28
Sale: Loudmer, Drouot, Paris, March 22, 1985, lot 11
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, March 11, 1998, lot 71
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Jean Bouin-Luce & Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 1986, no. 1168, illustrated pp. 291-92

Condition

Oil on canvas, not lined. The reverse of the canvas is also painted, depicting a town on a lake with a reflection in the water. Some minor bumping in the canvas at extreme lower left center and corner. Surface in generally good condition, some minor surface dirt and dirty varnish.
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