Lot Essay
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La marchande de frites
Details
Camille Bombois (1883-1970)
La marchande de frites
signed 'Bombois. C.lle' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 25 5/8 in. (46.2 x 65.1 cm.)
La marchande de frites
signed 'Bombois. C.lle' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 25 5/8 in. (46.2 x 65.1 cm.)
Provenance
Mme. C. Gregory, Paris (by 1937).
Billy Wilder, Los Angeles; Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 25 February 2004, lot 1.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Billy Wilder, Los Angeles; Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 25 February 2004, lot 1.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Paris, Musée de Grenoble and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America, 1937-1938, p. 32, no. 27 (illustrated, pl. 27).
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