Lot Essay
We are grateful to Roy Brindley and Selina Baring Maclennan for confirming the authenticity of the present work, which will be included in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's oeuvre.
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Le ballet
Details
Gaston La Touche (French, 1854-1913)
Le ballet
signed 'Gaston La Touche' (lower right)
oil on panel
30 ½ x 22 1/8 in. (77.5 x 56.2 cm.)
Le ballet
signed 'Gaston La Touche' (lower right)
oil on panel
30 ½ x 22 1/8 in. (77.5 x 56.2 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 November 2003, lot 40.
with Manzi, Joyant et Cie, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 November 2007, lot 122.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
with Manzi, Joyant et Cie, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 November 2007, lot 122.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Figaro Illustré, `Gaston La Touche par Camille Mauclair', Paris, October 1903, no. 163 (illustrated).
H. Frantz, Gaston La Touche, Paris, 1914, possibly p. 19.
H. Frantz, Gaston La Touche, Paris, 1914, possibly p. 19.
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