Lot 7
  • 7

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
  • La prière, église Saint-Bonnet
  • signed L.Lhermitte (lower right)
  • pastel on stretched paper
  • 19 5/8 by 22 5/8 in.
  • 49.8 by 57.5 cm

Provenance

Galerie Allard, Paris (1920)
Mazeron
E.R. Bradley
Thence by descent through the family to his niece
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Allard, Les pastels de Léon Lhermitte, March 1920, no. 11

Literature

Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Paris, 1991, p. 271, no. 643, illustrated

Condition

On stretched paper. Colors are bright and fresh. Light rubbing at extreme edges likely due to frame abrasion. Pinhole sized perforations at lower left corner and a small loss at extreme upper right corner.
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