Auction by "Christie's New York, USA" du 09/12/2014

aigles aux ailes déployées, 1928. (lot n°508)

New York

oil, colored chalk on panel
sight size: 25 5/8 x 63 in. (65 x 160 cm.)
signed Jouve 1928

Provenance

The family of Paul Jouve;
Thence by descent within his family;
Jacques Lejeune, Paris;
John W. Mecom Jr., Texas.

Literature

Dunand - Jouve - Schmied - Goulden, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1929, cat. no. 70;
Les Echoes d'Art, No. 55, February 1930, p. 16 for this work shown in its original frame.

Exhibited

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Dunand - Jouve - Schmied - Goulden, December 1929.

Lot Essay

cf. F. Marcilhac, Paul Jouve, Paris, 2005, p. 107 for a highly comparable painting.

Estimate: 17 550 - 23 400 €
Estimation: 27 500 €
Auction by "Christie's New York, USA" du 09/12/2014 - aigles aux ailes déployées, 1928. (lot n°508)