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Léon Augustin Lhermitte(French, 1844-1925)Le Passeur, 1911
21 – 28 May 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsUS$15,000 - US$25,000
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Claire Dettelbach
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Jelena James
Senior Specialist, Head of Sale
Jewel Bernier
Cataloguer
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Le Passeur, 1911
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower right); with a label from Christie's (affixed to the backing board)
pastel on paper
68.6 x 87.0 cm (27 x 34 1/4 in).
framed 88.5 x 107.5 x 7.0 cm (34 13/16 x 42 5/16 x 2 3/4 in).
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower right); with a label from Christie's (affixed to the backing board)
pastel on paper
68.6 x 87.0 cm (27 x 34 1/4 in).
framed 88.5 x 107.5 x 7.0 cm (34 13/16 x 42 5/16 x 2 3/4 in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Anonymous Sale, American Arts Association, New York, January 11, 1923, lot 82.
Mrs. G. Lindenmeyer (acquired from the previous).
Knoedler Galleries, New York.
Christie's, London, Impressionist and 19th Century Art, June 25, 2010, lot 120.
Sometime after to the present private Palm Beach, Florida, collection.
Literature
P. Forthuny, Excelsior, April 15, 1911, ill.
Fortunio, Le National, April 15, 1911, ill.
H. Fritsch Estrangin, New York Herald, April 15, 1911.
G. Ballu, La Lanterne, April 17, 1911.
G. Ballu, La Bataille, April 19, 1911.
M. Bellanger, La Presse Coloniale, April 20, 1911.
A. Warnod, Comoedia, April 24, 1911.
E. Langlade, Courrier du Pas-de-Calais, May 4, 1911.
L. Bocquet, Le Grand Echo, May 5, 1911.
A. Jousselin, Le Monde Illustré, May 6, 1911.
J. Loredan, Le Penseur, May, 1911.
M. le Pelley Fontney, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, Catalogue Raisonné (Paris, 1991), no. 567, ill. p. 258 (as Location Unknown).
Exhibitied
Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1911, no. 87.