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    5 May 2005

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    • Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)
    Lot 341

    Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)

    Composition cubiste

    Price realised

    USD 66,000

    Estimate

    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000

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    Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)
    Composition cubiste
    bears signature and date
    oil on masonite
    32¼ x 21 3/8 in. (82 x 54.3 cm.)
    Painted in the late 1920s

    Provenance

    Galerie Françoise Tournié, Paris; sale, Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, 22 November 1990, lot 22 (titled Composition).
    Anon. sale, Hôtel des Chevau-Légers, Versailles, 29 March 1992, lot 38 (titled Composition; dated 1922).
    Anon. sale, Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, 9 June 1994, lot 347 (titled Composition; dated 1925).
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    A. Varichon, Albert Gleizes, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. I, p. 359, no. 1085 (illustrated in color; incorrectly dated 1923).


    Lot Essay

    Anne Varichon has confirmed the authenticity of this painting and dated it to the late 1920s.

    Other information

    Pre-Lot Text

    PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION

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