Lot 36
  • 36

Maximilien Luce

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • Souffleur de verre
  • signed Luce (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.

Provenance

Samuel Josefowitz, Geneva
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 30th April 1969, lot 58
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 17th October 1990, lot 34
Estate of Gary Baxter Webb, Houston, Texas
Private collection, Europe

Literature

Jean Bouin-Luce and Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, catalogue de l'œuvre peint, vol. II, 1986, no. 926, illustrated p. 232

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is a small paint loss to the upper left corner. Under UV light, there is a milky varnish preventing UV light from fully penetrating. However, UV examination reveals some thin lines of retouching along the left and lower edges and a spot towards the centre of the right edge. Otherwise this work is in very good condition.
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