Lot 168
  • 168

JEAN-MICHEL ATLAN | Le Rapace

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
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Description

  • Atlan, Jean-Michel
  • Le Rapace
  • signed
  • oil on canvas
  • 130 x 80,5 cm ; 51 3/16 x 31 11/16 in.
  • Executed in 1957.

Provenance

Edwin E. Hokin Collection, Highland Park 
Holland Collection, Chicago
Sale: Ader-Picard-Tajan, Paris, 22 November 1989, lot 94
Private Collection, France

Exhibited

Antibes, Musée Picasso, Atlan, July - August, 1957 ; catalogue, illustration board 6
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Atlan, 22 January - 17 March 1963 ; catalogue, illustrated, no. 51
Paris, Galerie Artcurial, inaugural exhibition, June 1975

Literature

Bernard Dorival, Atlan, essai de bibliographie artistique, Paris, 1962, illustration board 43
L'art du XXe Siècle, Paris, Larousse, 1991, p. 310, no. 139, illustrated
Jacques Polieri, Atlan, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre complet, Paris, 1996, p.302, no. 482, illustrated in colour

Condition

The colours in the printed catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. This work is slightly dirty. The canvas is slightly loose. This work is in good condition.
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