ART AND ANTIQUES & MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART

Maxime MAUFRA (1861-1918)

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Start price: CHF8,000

Estimated price: 8 000 CHF - 16 000 CHF

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La Baie de la Napoule

Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1912
60.5 x 73.5 cm, frame: 81 x 94 cm

Addendum on provenance from June 21, 2024: Today we received a typewritten index card for this painting from the consignor. The provenance is recorded there: Victor-Emile Michelet, St. Pierre, Quiberon (a childhood friend of the artist, poet and one of the first to write a book about the artist); Purchased in the after-sale at Sotheby’s auction "Impressionist and Modern Paintings", London, October 17, 1990, lot. 156 for 11,660 GBP. (With buyer’s premium, this corresponded to 32,954 CHF at the time). It was also recorded on the index card that it should be included in the catalog raisonné drawn up by Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy.