LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

45.39 in. (115.30 cm.) (height) by 71.14 in. (180.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'LABISSE' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'LABISSE. 1946 CHARLOTTE CORDAY AUX POISSONS' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d'Automne, 1946. New York, Whitney Museum, Painting in France 1939-1946, January 1947. Paris, Galerie d'Art du Faubourg, Labisse, May 1947. Berlin, R.F.A., Franzözische Malerei und Plastik, May - June 1950. Brussels, Palais des beaux-arts, Labisse, January 1953. Liège, Musée des beaux-arts, Labisse, February 1953. Venice, 27th Biennale, June 1954 (illustrated). Knokke, Casino de Knokke, Labisse, Rétrospective, July - August 1960 (illustrated). Paris, Musée Galleria, Labisse, May 1962 (illustrated). Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le surréalisme, sources, histoire, affinités, May 1964 (illustrated). Lisbon, Un século de pintura francesa, 1965 (illustrated). Knokke, Casino de Knokke, Trésors du surréalisme, June 1968 (illustrated). Charleroi, Palais des beaux-arts, Labisse, Rétrospective, February 1969 (illustrated). Hamburg, Kunstverein, Malerei des Surrealismus von den Anfangen bis heute, April 1969 (illustrated). Bordeaux, Musée des beaux-arts, Surréalisme, May 1971, no. 116 (illustrated). Mechelen, De Menselijke figuur in de kunst 1910-1960, September 1971. Rotterdam, Musée Boymans-van-Beuningen, Labisse, Rétrospective, January 1973, no. 22 (illustrated). Ostende, Kursaal, Labisse, Rétrospective, 50 ans de peinture, June - September 1979.

Literature:

P. Waldberg, Félix Labisse, Brussels, 1970, p. 87 (illustrated). L. Maurizi, Incontro con Labisse, Pollenza-Macerata, 1974 (illustrated). I. Brachot, Labisse, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Brussels, 1979, no. 216 (illustrated p. 118).

Provenance:

Acquired in Belgium in the late 1960s and thence by descent to the present owner.