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LEO PUTZ (GERMAN, 1869-1940)
The picnic
signed and indistinctly dated 'Leo Putz 0...' (lower left)
oil on canvas
3312 x 3818 in. (85 x 97 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, France.
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Elegantly dressed figures convene with a leisurely air in the sun-dappled light under the framing branches of a tree, the feast of a picnic laid out on a rug before them. In the present lot, Leo Putz takes similar themes from works by Manet (jeuner sur l'herbe, 1862-3) and Monet (jeuner sur l'herbe, 1865-6) which he would have seen whilst studying at the Académie Julian in Paris and re-imagines them with his own expressionist style. This work relates to a painting by Putz of the same subject in the collection of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung in Munich (see Helmut Putz, Leo Putz, Gauting, 1994, vol. II, p. 636, no. 259).

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