Lot 158
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Albert Gleizes

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albert Gleizes
  • Composition au bol noir
  • signed Albert Gleizes and dated 1921 (lower right)
  • oil on panel
  • 81 by 60cm., 31 7/8 by 23 5/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie de L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
Sale: Christie's, London, 29th March 1988, lot 145
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5th, 6th & 9th April 1989, lot 35 
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 29th November 1989, lot 193
Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection, Switzerland (sale: Christie's, London, 9th December 1998, lot 644)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tentoonstelling van franse kunst uit de twintigste eeuw, 1932, no. 99 (titled as Vaas met bloemen)

Literature

Anne Varichon, Albert Gleizes, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. I, no. 989, illustrated p. 335

Condition

The panel is sound. Apart from small spots of fluorescence where the nails in the panel are fixed, and which is most probably original, UV examination reveals no apparent signs of retouching. There are very fine scattered lines of entirely stable craquelure. There is a fine scratch to the white element at the centre of the composition and a small fleck of paint loss to the pink element towards the centre of the right edge. This work is in overall good condition and may benefit from a light clean.
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