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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION
Lot 47*,AR

CELSO LAGAR
(1891-1966)
Corrida

20 April 2023, 16:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,825 inc. premium

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CELSO LAGAR (1891-1966)

Corrida
signed 'Lagar' (lower right)
oil on burlap
38 x 46.1cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/8in).
Painted in 1918

Footnotes

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Narciso Alba.

Provenance
Anon. sale, Enchères Paris Sud-Est, Brie-Comte-Robert, 30 June 2022, lot 129.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Narciso Alba, biographer of Celso Lagar, declares in his certificate for Corrida that 'it is the most complete picture of the theme of the bullfight, and the one with the greatest tragic expression and finishes in terms of figures and colours. [...] It is a work for collectors due to its exceptionality in the whole of the work of the Mirobrigense artist.'

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