Lot 181: PIERRE ROY | L'Eclair

oil on canvas

33.2 x 22.2 cm; 13 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.

oil on canvas

The canvas is not lined. There is some frame rubbing and associated flecks of paint loss along the upper and lower edges and some gold residue from previous framing visible intermittently along all four edges. There is a milky varnish preventing UV light from fully penetrating, however there appears to be three horizontal lines of retouching towards the lower edge, the longest of which is approximately 5 cm long, There are a few further spots and lines of retouching in places predominately along the edges. There are very faint circular lines of craquellure only visible in a rackling light. There is a small surface scratch towards the upper part of the left edge. This work is in good condition.
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Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Rétrospective Pierre Roy, 1953, no. 43
Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Le rêve d'une ville, 1994-95
Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, illustrated in the catalogue p. 28, listed p. 37
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 121

Denis Roy
Sale: Hôtel des ventes du Boischaut, Saint-Amand-Montrond, June 14, 1992, lot 19
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt