PIERRE DUBREUIL

Through my Spectacles (Translucidits)

Details

PIERRE DUBREUIL
Through my Spectacles (Translucidits)
Oil print. Circa 1928. Signed in pencil on the mount; signed, titled, annotated 28 rue de Socht, Bruxelles in ink, titled in pencil and exhibition labels affixed to the reverse of the mount.
7 x 9in. (19.7 x 24.2cm.)

Provenance

Photographs from the Collection of Graham Nash, Sotheby's, New York, April 25, 1990, Lot 140, ill. (there reproduced vertically);
with Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago;
private collection, New York.

Exhibited

Exposition des Artistes Photographes de Belgique, Paris, March - April 1935;
Les Amateurs Photographes Belges, III Salon des A.P.B., Brussels, October - November 1935.

Lot Essay

This is one of only four known oil prints of this image, including a print in the collection of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chciago, a gift of Max Thorek. Another signed print of this image was sold in these rooms, 8 April, 1998, now in a private collection.