Camille Bombois (1883-1970)
Le marché aux fleurs à Honfleur
signed 'Bombois. C.lle' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36¼ x 25½ in. (92.1 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in 1930
Provenance
André Paz, Paris (by 1940).
Perls Galleries, New York (by 1958).
Jewel Garlick, New York (acquired from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 10 November 1994, lot 211.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
R.H. Wilenski, Modern French Painters, New York, 1940, no. 92 (illustrated; dated circa 1929).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Camille Bombois, Louis Vivin, October-November 1958, no. 6 (illustrated).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, De Lusthof der Naïeven, July-December 1964, no. 38 (illustrated).