LEBASQUE, HENRI1865 Champigné - 1937 Le Cannet


Title: Pommiers en Fleurs (Étude pour un panneau décoratif).
Date: Ca. 1917.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Mounting: Relined.
Measurement: 73 x 54cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower right: H.L.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Studio of the artist
- Loudeux, Paris, auction 29.11.1986, lot 135
- Elkaim, L'Isle-Adam, auction 31.1.1988
- Christie's, London, auction 20.10.1989, lot 243
- Camed, Paris, auction 14.06.2005, lot 58
- Couton-Veyrac, Nantes auction, 6 Dec. 2005
- Martin-Chausselat, Versailles, auction 19.3.2006, lot 132
- Private collection France

Literature:
-Bazetoux, Denise: Henri Lebasque - Catalogue raisonné, Tome I, Paris 2008, cat. rais. no. 1532, ill.

- An absolute speciality on the German auction market where comparable works recently achieved high five-figure hammer prices
- Particularly colourful and high-contrast work by the French Post-Impressionist painter
- A solitaire of museum quality and irresistible intensity.