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Property from the collection of Seymour Stein

Robert Pougheon

Les Dioscures

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February 5, 07:30 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Bid

42,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the collection of Seymour Stein

Eugène Robert Poughéon

French 1886 - 1955

Les Dioscures



signed and dated upper right: Pougheon 1939

oil on canvas

canvas: 47 ⅜ by 68 ¼ in.; 120.3 by 173.4 cm

framed: 59 ¾ by 80 ½ in.; 151.8 by 204.5 cm

Executed in 1939.

The family of the artist

Galerie Gaubert, Paris (acquired from the above in 1972)

(possibly) Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1974 

Barry Friedman, New York

Private Collection 

Christie's, New York, 12 December 1997, lot 135

Seymour Stein, Los Angeles (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Paris, Grand Palais, Salon de 1939, 1939 no. 2257

Paris, Palais de Chaillot, Salon de 1941, 1941, no. 513

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, lithographie et arts appliqués des Artistes vivants exposés au Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris 1939, p. 84, no. 2257

Raymond Escholier, “Salon 1939,” Le Journal, 4 May 1939, p. 8

“Le Salon,” Beaux-Arts, 5 May 1939, p. 7

Louis Paillard, “‘Le Salon’ – Artistes Français et Société Nationale,” Le Petit Journal, 5 May 1939, p. 2

René-Jean (pseud. of René Hippolyte Jean), “Le Salon du Printemps au Grand-Palais,” Le Temps, 11 May 1939, p. 4

Édouard Sarradin, “Le Salon de 1939,” Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 12 May 1939, p. 4

René Barotte, “Le Salon,” L’Homme Libre, 30 May 1939, p. 2

Exposition de l’art français au Palais de Chaillot 1941, Paris 1941, no. 513

Dr. Maurice Vimont, “Le Salon de 1941,” Le Concours médical, 6 April 1941, p. 1010

R. de Cazenave and Pierre Imbourg, “Le Salon,” Beaux-Arts, vol. 71, no. 17, 2 May 1941, p. 5

Edward Lucie-Smith, Art Deco Painting, Oxford 1990, p. 38, pl. 22

Alice Massé., Robert Pougheon 1886-1955: Un classicisme de fantaisie, Montreuil 2017, p. 14, fig. 2