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Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell

Jean Hélion

Éléments écartés

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May 20, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Bid

250,000 USD

Lot Details

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Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell

Jean Hélion

1904 - 1987


Éléments écartés

signed Jean Hélion and Hélion, titled (Éléments écartés fond gris), dated va 33 and inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

31 ¾ by 39 ⅛ in. 

80.6 by 99.4 cm. 

Executed in 1933. 

Louis Hélion-Blair, United States (acquired by descent from the artist until at least 1992)

Private Collection

Rachel Adler Fine Art, New York

Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner

New York, Galerie John Becker, 1933

New York, Valentine Gallery, 1939

Washington, D.C., The Whyte Gallery and Virginia, Lynchburg Art Club, Abstract Paintings by Hélion, 1939

Paris, Grand Palais, Hélion, 100 tableaux 1928-1970, 1971, p. 23, illustrated

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944, 1983-84, no. 72, p. 169, illustrated 

Paris, Galerie Gérald Piltzer, Tableaux de la succession, 1995

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, Paintings by Jean Hélion, 1996 

Abbaye aux Dames de Caen, Jean Hélion- À perte de vue, 1996 

Musée d'art moderne de Paris, Années 30 en Europe, le temps menaçant 1929-1939, 1997, p. 300, illustrated in color; p. 526 (titled Éléments écartés sur fond gris)  

London, The Mayor Gallery, Jean Hélion, 1998, no. 1, illustrated in color

Utrecht, Galerie Quintessens, Jean Hélion, rétrospective, 1999, no. 4, p. 7, illustrated

Henry-Claude Cousseau, Hélion, 1992, p. 64, illustrated in color; p. 310, illustrated 

Comité Jean Hélion, eds., Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint de Jean Hélion, no. 275, illustrated in color (online)