Lot 51
  • 51

Gaston La Touche

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Gaston La Touche
  • Le bain (La Chaste Suzanne)
  • signed Gaston la Touche and inscribed Gros Doibt (lower center)
  • oil on canvas
  • 82 3/8 by 68 1/2 in.
  • 209.2 by 173.9 cm

Provenance

Robert C. Hall, Pittsburgh (acquired in 1907 as recorded in the artist's account books)
University Club, Pittsburgh (and sold, Constantine & Mayer, Pittsburgh, November 20, 2004) 
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, April 11-June 31, 1907 (awarded the Gold Medal)
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, June 11-July 13, 1908, no. 206
Brussels, Galeries des Artistes Français, December 21-January 13, 1929, no. 17
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas Centennial Exposition, 1936

Literature

Henri Frantz, Gaston La Touche 1854-1913, London, 1914, p. 18
Selina Baring MacLennan, Gaston La Touche, A Painter of Belle Époque Dreams, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2009, p. 195

Condition

Unlined; widely patterned craquelure visible throughout composition with finer alligatoring in the trees and leaves. Under UV: Areas of inpainting in fabric to the right of the figure's upper body and a spot in the fabric the right of her shins.
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Catalogue Note

Gros Doibt was the name of Gaston La Touche's country house in the small hamlet of Champsecret in Normandy.