ANDRÉ LHOTE | ACACIA AU SOLEIL
Lot Closed
December 14, 05:15 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Recognized American Collection
ANDRÉ LHOTE
1885 - 1962
ACACIA AU SOLEIL
Signed A.Lhote. (lower left); signed A.Lhote, titled and dated 1957 (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
25⅝ by 21⅜ in. (65.1 by 54.3 cm)
Framed: 31½ by 27¼ in. (80 by 69.2 cm)
Painted in 1957.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Dominique Bermann Martin.
Ruth & Leon Juster, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 12, 1994, lot 448)
Acquired at the above sale
New York, Juster Gallery, André Lhote, Retrospective, 1958, no. 29
Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, André Lhote, 1962, no. 60
New York, Weintraub Gallery, André Lhote, Cubism and Later Periods, 1980, no. 21
Emblematic of his individual technique, the present work conveys Lhote’s unique pictorial style of Cubism: a triumphant, spontaneous vision that incorporates his unabashed use of vivacious colors with Cubist ideas of form. The unrestrained color of his palette is superbly sensitive, and his bold play of lines and figurative elements provides a sense of inventiveness to the formality of his pictorial construct. Bursting with energy, Lhote reworks the landscape in the context of the Cubist code to create a lively quality entirely his own.