LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (height) by 32.28 in. (82.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed J Puy (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Druet. Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Jean Puy, 1963, no. 23. Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, 80 Pittori da Renoir a Kisling, 1964. Tokyo, Les Fauves et le Fauvisme, 1965, no. 61. Geneva, Petit Palais, Jean Puy, 1977, no. 26. Geneva, Petit Palais, Jean Puy, le Maître de Roanne, 1994.

Literature:

Gaston Rochas & Oscar Ghez, Jean Puy, Geneva, 1977, no. 26, illustrated in colour. Suzanne Limmouzi & Louis Fressonnet-Puy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint de Jean Puy (1878-1960), Roanne, 2001, no. 20420, illustrated p. 127

Provenance:

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist). Collection Petit Palais, Geneva. Oscar Ghez, Geneva. Connaught Brown Gallery, London. Sheila Mallett, Sydney. Acquired from the above by the present owner in August 1997.