Lot 38
  • 38

Maximilien Luce

Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Maximilien Luce
  • Autoportrait à la cigarette
  • signed Luce (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 22 x 18 1/8 in.

Provenance

Frédéric Luce
Sale: Paris, Palais Galliéra, 3rd December 1975, lot 58
Private collection, France

Exhibited

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Maximilien Luce, 1977, no. 44, illustrated in the catalogue p. 1
Paris, Musée Marmottan, Maximilien Luce, 1983, no. 49

Literature

Philippe Cazeau, Maximilien Luce, Paris, 1982, p. 166, no. 684, illustrated p. 166
Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, Catalogue de l'œuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 1986, no. 684, illustrated p. 172

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is a milky varnish preventing UV light from fully penetrating. There appears to be a spot of retouching to the centre of the right edge and some tiny dots of retouching to the sitter's proper right eye. The canvas is slightly undulating. This work is in good condition.
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