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SIMON-ALBERT BUSSY
Dôle (Jura) 1870-1954 London
Black Bird of Paradise, 1948
Signed with the artist’s initials and dated, lower right, SB/48; the back of the stretcher inscribed, Paradis noir
Oil on canvas
14 x 12 inches
35.6 x 30.5 cm
Provenance
Studio of the artist, thence by descent to
John Strachey, Esq. (1901-1963), London (sale: London, Sotheby’s, One Hundred Paintings by Simon Bussy: The Property of John Strachey, Esq., 7 May 1964, lot 15, Black Bird of Paradise)
Private collection, England, until 2018
Exhibitions
London, The Leicester Galleries, Oiseaux, Poissons, Fleurs et Animaux: An Exhibition of Paintings by Simon Bussy, October 1949, cat. no. 76, Black Bird of Paradise
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