Femme assise

Details

ALBERT GLEIZES (1881-1953)
Femme assise
signed and dated 'Alb Gleizes .19' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 ¾ x 23 ½ in. (72.7 x 59.8 cm.)
Painted in 1919

Provenance

Juliette Roche-Gleizes, Paris (wife of the artist).
Galerie Simone Heller, Paris.
André Lhote, Paris (acquired from the above, 1958).
Peter Adams, London (possibly acquired from the above, and until 1995).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1998, lot 370.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

"Rétrospective d'un cubiste qui penchait vers l'ésotérisme: Albert Gleize" in Connaissance des Arts, May 1958, no. 57, p. 117 (illustrated).
A. Varichon, Albert Gleizes: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. I, p. 287, no. 833 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Simone Heller, Albert Gleizes, September-October 1958.

Further details

Anne Varichon has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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Lot Essay

Femme assise has had the distinction of a very prominent provenance. It was in the collection of the artist André Lhote in 1958, and later owned by Peter Adams. The Peter Adams Etruscan Collection was exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford and his wife was painted twice by André Lhote.

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