ANDRÉ LHOTE (1885-1962)
“SUR LA TERRASSE”
oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm (24 x 18in)
signed lower left, also signed on the stretcher
painted c.1950
EXHIBITED:
XXVII Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venice, 1954
André Lhote, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, 1962
ISMAEL DE LA SERNA (1898-1968)
“MASQUES”
mixed media on terracotta, 120 x 50cm (47 1/4 x 19 3/4in)
signed lower right, painted c.1935
EXHIBITED: Malevich Gallery, Madrid.
MAURICE-HENRI GAUDEFROY (1883-1972)
“NATURE MORTE”
oil on canvas, 100 x 79cm
signed, painted circa 1930
MAURICE-HENRI GAUDEFROY (1883-1972)
“NATURE MORTE CUBISTE”
oil on canvas, 100 x 81cm (39 1/2 x 32in)
signed lower right, circa 1930
EXHIBITED: Galerie Percier, Paris, 1931
ANDRÉ BEAUDIN (1895-1979)
“TÊTE ENDORMIE”
bronze with brown patina, height: 20cm (8in)
initialled and numbered “3/6”,
conceived and executed 1933,
also bears foundry stamp “E.Robecon, Cire Perdue”
EXHIBITED:
A.Beaudin, Sculptures 1930-1963, Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1963 (No.5, Illus.)
André Beaudin, Oeuvres 1921-1970, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, Paris, 1970 (No.163, Illus.)
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection of Paul Eluard, the Dada poet.
LÉOPOLD SURVAGE (1879-1968)
“HOMME À L’OISEAU”
oil on board, 12 x 8cm, (4 3/4 x 3 1/4in)
signed and dated lower right, 1942
[SOLD]
PIERRE THIRIOT (1904-1991)
“CHOPINIANA”
oil on canvas, 200 x 200cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4in)
signed lower left
painted 1928
EXHIBITED:
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 1928, (no.4132)
LITERATURE:
"La Rampe", No.546, Sept 1931, (p.26)
“Le Pays Lorrain”, Emile Nicolas, Nancy, 1939, (illus. p136)
“Dictionnaire Biographique des Artistes Contemporains”, Edouard-Joseph, 1933, (Vol.III, p.339)“
TEXT READS:
"Toujours tu fais courir entre chaque douleur
L’oubli vertigineux et doux de ton caprice
Prince du désespoir ou grand Seigneur trahi”
“Chopin”, Marcel Proust, 1896, (extract)
FRANCISCO BORÈS (1898-1972)
“NU COUCHÉ, 1948”
oil on canvas, 130 x 89cm (50 x 35in),
signed and dated lower right, 1948
EXHIBITED:
Galerie Pierre, Paris, 1948
PROVENANCE:
Collection of the Artist
Estate of the Artist
LITERATURE:
“Francisco Borès, Catalogo Razanado Pintura 1945-1972”,
Hélene Dechanet-Borès, Madrid, 2003, (illus. p.123, no.1948/59)
[SOLD]
ÉTIENNE BÉOTHY (1897 - 1961)
“OPUS 17 - FEMME 1”
bronze relief, 41 x 20 x 3.5cm (16 x 8 x 1 1/4in)
signed lower left side, “E.Beothy”
numbered 1 of 8,
with “Clementi, Meudon. Cire Perdue” foundry mark
conceived in 1925
EXHIBITED:
Béothy, Galerie Sacre du Printemps, Paris, 1928
Unigarische Avant-Garde, Galeria del Levante, Milan, 1971
Unigarische Avant-Garde, Galerie Werner Kunze, Berlin, 1972
Rétrospective Béothy, Musée Marl, Germany,1979
Les Années UAM 1929-1958, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1988
LITERATURE:
The original plaster work appears in the Hungarian photographer André Kertesz’s famous image Satiric Dancer (1926), taken in Beothy’s studio.
[SOLD]
LÉO LEUPPI (1893-1972)
“KOMPOSITION, 1934”
oil on canvas, 100 x 92cm (39 1/2 x 36in)
signed and dated lower left, 1934