Henri Lebasque (1865-1937)
Pierre Lebasque lisant
signed 'Lebasque' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18¼ x 21 7/8 in. (47 x 55.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1927-1928
Provenance
Musée du Petit-Palais, Geneva.
Galleria d'arte Pirra, Turin.
Galerie 65, Cannes.
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 30 November 1972, lot 66.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 2 December 1982, lot 425.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1987, lot 189.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, Los Angeles (by descent from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 2000, lot 94.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque, Catalogue raisonné, Neuilly-sur-Marne, 2008, vol. I, p. 204, no. 727 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Turin, Galleria d'arte Pirra, Il movimento Fauve, l'evoluzione pittorica degli interpreti dal 1905 al 1933, April 1973, no. 19.
Valle d'Aosta, Grand Hôtel Billia Saint Vincent, Tra L'Impressionismo ed il Liberty, August-September 1973, no. 19.