Lot 150
  • 150

EMILE FRIANT | The entrance of the clowns

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 EUR
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Description

  • Emile Friant
  • The entrance of the clowns
  • Signed and dated lower left E. Friant 1881
  • Oil on canvas
  • 26,5 x 40,5 cm ; 10 3/8 by 16 in.

Provenance

Sale of M. Corbin's collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 & 20 October 1936, lot 91 ;
Purchased from the above by the current owner's grandfather

Exhibited

Émile Friant, regard sur l'homme et l'œuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 8 July- 4 October 1988, illustrated in color p. 31 n°3 ;
Collecting in the Gilded Age, Art patronage in Pittsburgh 1890-1910, The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 6 avril - 29 juin 1997, n° 88, illustrated p. 251 ;
Emile Friant un nouveau regard, Musée Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 10 June-3 September 2006, illustrated n°7, p.48 ;
Emile Friant, le dernier naturaliste ?, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 4 November 2016 - 27 February 2017, n°40, illustrated p. 101 and a double page pp. 182-183.

Literature

Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, illustrated p.26 and in full page p.27 ;
Exhibition catalogue, A l'épreuve du réel, Les peintres et la photographie au XIXe siècle, Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, 30 June - 1st October 2012, illustrated p. 128

Condition

- thin craquelures scattered on the surface, some are filled-in, especially on the right of the composition and by the elephant in the middle - under UV light, one can observe traces of dropping (varnish), but nothing else visible Very good condition.
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