Details
Jean Lurçat (1892-1966)
Le lever du jour
signed and dated 'Lurçat 1925' (lower right); signed and dated again 'J Lurçat 1925' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
2138 x 3178 in. (54.3 x 80.8 cm.)
Painted in 1925
Provenance
Galerie Bignou, Paris (1926).
Valentine Gallery (Valentine Dudensing), New York.
Walter Brewster, Chicago (acquired from the above, March 1929).
Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson, Santa Barbara.
Private collection, Chicago; sale, Christie's, London, 25 February 1981, lot 99.
Private collection, Washington, D.C. (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sloans & Kenyon, Chevy Chase, 14 November 2010, lot 1265.
Private collection, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016.
Literature
Sélection, May 1926, p. 254 (illustrated).
G. Denizeau and S. Lurçat, L'oeuvre peint de Jean Lurçat: Catalogue raisonné, 1910-1965, Lausanne, 1998, p. 286, no. 1925.17 (with incorrect cataloguing; illustrated prior to signature and date).
Exhibited
London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), Paintings by Jean Lurçat, May 1930, no. 36 (dated 1930 and with incorrect dimensions).
New York, Valentine Gallery, Recent Works of Jean Lurçat, November 1930, no. 21 (dated 1930 and with incorrect dimensions).
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