Fernand Le Quesne

Les deux perles

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

July 4, 02:11 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Gentleman

Fernand Le Quesne

French

1856 - 1932

Les deux perles

signed F Le Quesne lower right

oil on canvas

Unframed: 195 by 163cm., 76¾ by 64in.

Framed: 218 by 184cm., 85¾ by 72½in.

Sale: Christie's, New York, 25 February 1983, lot 23 (as The Awakening)

Jean-François Heim, Paris

Acquired by the father of the present owner

Paris, Salon, 1889, no. 1665

According to the Athenaeum from 1894 this work was entered into sale at Phillips in London on 19 June 1894, titled The Two Pearls. Fernand Le Quesne was the son of Parisian sculptor Eugène-Louis and later studied with academic artists Henri Gervex and Albert Maignon.