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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Louis Marcoussis

Une Nuit

Live auction begins on:

November 21, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Bid

4,800 USD

Lot Details

Description

Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Louis Marcoussis 

1878 - 1941


Une Nuit 

signed Marcoussis and dated 37 (lower left); signed L Marcoussis and titled La nuit (I) (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

19 ½ by 24 in.

49.5 by 61 cm. 

Executed in 1937.

Helena Rubinstein, New York and Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 20 April 1966, lot 56 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Marcoussis, 1937, no. 5

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Marcoussis, 1937, no. 6

London, London Gallery, Marcoussis, 1939, no. 3

Jean Lafranchis, Marcoussis, Sa vie, son oeuvre: Catalogue complet des peintures, fixés sur verre, aquarelles, dessins, gravures, Paris, 1961, no. P. 238, p. 278, illustrated