Description:
Maximilien Luce (French, 1858-1941)
La Roulotte, Auvers sur Oise
Signed "Luce" l.l., titled on the reverse, with a Parisian customs stamp on the reverse.
Oil on board, 22 x 29 3/4 in. (55.8 x 75.3 cm),framed.
Condition: Possible retouch.
Literature: Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Tome III (Paris: Avril graphique éd., 2005),cat. no. 1503, with the title Rolleboise, le repos des faneurs.
N.B. The catalogue raisonné entry dates the painting to 1920-25, and provides provenance from the atelier of the artist to the "Ancienne Collection Frédéric Luce."
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Inscribed "L.N. 36" on the stretcher.
The condition report states there is possible retouch. This was noted because under UV examination there are scattered darker areas throughout the sky. However, this does not appear to be retouch, but seems more likely to be areas of the board showing through where there is active brushwork and the paint is applied more thinly.
Framed dimensions are 29 3/8 x 37 1/4 in.
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Tome III, Avril graphique, Denise Bazetoux, ParisStephen L. Fletcher
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