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Property from a Private Collection of Surrealist Art

Félix Labisse

La Main

Lot Closed

March 11, 08:08 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection of Surrealist Art

Félix Labisse

1905 - 1982

La Main


Signed Labisse. (lower right)

Gouache, brush and ink and pen and ink on paper

9 ⅝ by 7 ½ in. (24.4 by 19 cm)

Framed: 17 ⅝ by 15 ½ in. (44.8 by 39.4 cm)

Executed circa 1955. 

Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Private Collection, Belgium (and sold: Sotheby's, Amsterdam, September 6, 2005, lot 353)
Gallery of Surrealism, New York
Acquired from the above on October 2, 2005
This work is a study for an unrealized invitation to the opening of an exhibition at the Cinémathèque française at the Municipal Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris entitled 60 Years of Cinema, Exhibition—Projections in 1955 (see fig. 1).