LOUIS MARCOUSSIS
Warsaw 1878–1941 Cusset
La Guitare et l’as de trèfle
Inscribed with blue crayon on the verso, upper center, Marcoussis; also inscribed, verso, right center, je certifié que cette/ peinture est de Marcoussis / Alice Marcoussis
Oil on board
18 ⅛ x 13 ⅛ inches
46 x 33.5 cm
Provenance
M. et Mme. Joseph-Berthold (‘Bertie’) Urvater, Brussels
M. Piaggi, Paris
M. Philippe Leclercq, Roubaix, France
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
E. V. Thaw & Co., New York, from whom acquired in 1964 by a
Private collection, USA (sale: New York, Sotheby’s, 15 November 2016, lot 170, illustrated)
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
Paris, Musée d’art moderne, Le Cubisme de 1907 à 1914, 1953, cat. no. 196
Otterloo, Museum Kröller-Muller, and Liège, Musée des beaux-arts, La Collection Urvater, 1957, cat. no. 82, illustrated
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1914: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture Created in 1914 in Celebration of the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1964, cat. no. 145
Literature
______ “L’Art d’aujourd’hui,” Paris, June 5, 1953, p. 22, illustrated
J. Lafranchis, Marcoussis, son vie, son oeuvre, catalogue complet des peintures, fixes sur verre, aquarelles, dessins, gravures, Paris, 1961, p. 243, cat. no. 33, illustrated
Painted in 1914
PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK