A light breeze, Biôt, Provence

Details

Wilfrid Gabriel De Glehn, R.A., N.E.A.C. (1870-1951)
A light breeze, Biôt, Provence
with Atellier stamp numbered '267' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21½ x 27½ in. (54.6 x 69.8 cm.)

Provenance

with David Messum, London, 1988, from whom purchased by the present owner.

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

Whilst holidaying near Biôt with a cousin, Eulalie Monod, a glass-blower who had married into a local family, de Glehn became entranced by the play of flickering light between the trees, which he used to frame his composition in the foreground, contrasted with the dazzling sunlight illuminating the medieval hillside town across an expansive landscape beyond.

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