LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

73 x 59,9 cm; 28¾ x 23? in.

Edition:

Painted in 1942.

Description:

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Markings:

signed LABISSE. (lower right)

Condition:

The work has been examined framed. Canvas is not lined. There is a milky varnish preventing UV light from fully penetrating. However examination under UV light appears to reveal a few intermittent lines of retouching towards the model's breast and chin most of them related to craquelure restorations and associated with glue on the reverse. There are a few further horizontal minor lines of craquelure. There is some frame rubbing along the extreme edges. This work is in overall good condition.

Literature:

Robert Desnos, Félix Labisse, Paris, 1945, illustrated Ostend flash, July 1960, illustrated Vooruit, August 1960, illustrated Louis Pauwels, M. Gurdjeff, Isle of Man, 1963, illustrated Jacques Sternberg, Les Chefs-d'œuvre de l'amour sensuel, Paris, 1966, illustrated Patrick Waldberg, Félix Labisse, Brussels, 1970, illustrated p. 71 Xavière Gauthier, Surréalisme et Sexualité, Paris, 1971, illustrated p. 120 Isy Brachot, Labisse, Catalogue de l'œuvre peint, 1927-1979, Brussels, 1979, no. 152, illustrated p. 85

Provenance:

Mrs. Suntjens, Brussels Private collection, Belgium