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Description: NATURE MORTE DANS UN VASE PEINT

NATURE MORTE DANS UN VASE PEINT

75 by 55.5cm.; 29½ by 21 7/8 in.

signed

oil on canvas

To be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Albert Dubois-Pillet being prepared by Patrick Offenstadt under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

PROVENANCE

Commandant de Gendarmerie Pool, France (a gift from the artist to his friend)
Estate of the family Pool, France
Acquired from the above in the 1960s by the family of the present owner

NOTE

Born in 1845 in Paris, Albert Dubois-Pillet was a self-taught painter who pursued a career as a policer officer alongside his artistic activities. A friend of Seurat and Signac, he was one of the founding members of the Salon des Indépendants in 1884.