GUSTAVE LOISEAU | L'Entrée d'un village en automne

Private Collection, London (sale: Sotheby's, London, 30th November 1967, lot 41)
Hammer Galleries, New York
Galería Maison Bernard, Caracas
Private Collection (acquired from the above in November 1978)
Sale: Christie's, New York, 15th May 2015, lot 1314
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

The canvas is not lined and there appear to be no signs of retouching when examined under UV light. There are minor fine lines of stable craquelure to the thicker areas of impasto. The edges have evidence of minor frame abrasion. There is lovely impasto and this work is in overall good condition and may benefit from a clean.
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'Throughout his career, he works to capture on canvas the impressions created by the vibrations of light, air and water, thus uniting the arms of his predecessors while adding a new element: solidity, a balancing of the masses, a sense of construction. In first, Loiseau does not try to seize a fleeting anecdotical moment but rather to define its exterior aspect, to recreate it on canvas in order to profoundly penetrate the viewer's perception of it.' (Didier Imbert, Gustave Loiseau (exhibition catalogue), Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris, 1985, n.p.)

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Didier Imbert.