Louis Valtat (1869-1952)
L'atelier or Nu dans l'atelier
oil on canvas
67½ x 87 in. (171.5 x 221 cm.)
Painted circa 1890
Provenance
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 December 1964, lot B.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1962, lot 45.
Anon. sale, Versailles, 31 May 1972, lot 184.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1980, lot 26.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Dr. J. Valtat, Louis Valtat, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1977, vol. I, p. 1, no. 8 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Société du Salon d'Automme, Exposition Rétrospective de Louis Valtat, October-November 1952, p. 36, no. 1437 (illustrated).
Lot Essay
Louis-André Valtat will include this painting in his catalogue raisonnée being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.