Nu (allégorie)

Details

Émile Othon Friesz (1879-1949)
Nu (allégorie)
signed 'E. Othon Friesz' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (65 x 54 cm.)
Painted circa 1932

Provenance

Katia Granoff, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in December 1936; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 October 1992, lot 108.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 September 2006, lot 196.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

This work is accompanied by a photo-certificate from the artist.

The present work comes from a small series of studies by the artist for the tapestry, La Paix, commissioned by the French Republic in 1935 to decorate the Petit Palais des Sociétes des Nations, Geneva.

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