LE REPAS LA MARSEILLES, 1954 Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908-1979)
Signature: signed upper left; signed again and inscribed with title and artist's reference number [2055] on reverse (now concealed beneath backing board) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 39½ x 28½in. (100.33 x 72.39cm) Provenance: Purchased in Paris directly from the artist by a friend, c.1955;Whyte's, 30 November 2004, lot 109;Private collection From the middle of May to the middle of July 1954 Basil Rákóczi was living in Menton and regularly travelled along the coast of France. The present example was painted in early June 1954. A companion ... piece to Le Repas le Marseilles, a preparatory work in gouache entitled At Table chez la Marseillaise, can be found in the collection of the artist's family and dates to late May of the same year. The present example was originally bought by a close friend of Rákóczi's in 1955 in Paris. We are grateful to Christopher Rákóczi for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. more
LE REPAS LA MARSEILLES, 1954 Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908-1979)
Signature: signed upper left; signed again and inscribed with title and artist's reference number [2055] on reverse (now concealed beneath backing board) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 39½ x 28½in. (100.33 x 72.39cm) Provenance: Purchased in Paris directly from the artist by a friend, c.1955;Whyte's, 30 November 2004, lot 109;Private collection From the middle of May to the middle of July 1954 Basil Rákóczi was living in Menton and regularly travelled along the coast of France. The present example was painted in early June 1954. A companion ... piece to Le Repas le Marseilles, a preparatory work in gouache entitled At Table chez la Marseillaise, can be found in the collection of the artist's family and dates to late May of the same year. The present example was originally bought by a close friend of Rákóczi's in 1955 in Paris. We are grateful to Christopher Rákóczi for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. more
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