Auction on
01 April 2022 - 14:00 (CEST) -
Salle 1 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Is Friant becoming a regular at auction? The portraits sold in 2019 and 2020 are now followed by a landscape from Lorraine. A lesser-known aspect of his work, perhaps—in the sale room, at least.
Émile Friant (1863-1932), Une lisière de bois(Le Père Pidole, avec le village de Bouxières-aux-Dames à l'arrière-plan) (A Woodland Clearing: Old Man Pidole, with Bouxières-aux-Dames in the background), 1885, oil on panel, 37.5 x 46 cm/14.8 x 18.1 in. Estimate: €20,000/30,000
Émile Friant (1863-1932), Une lisière de bois(Le Père Pidole, avec le village de Bouxières-aux-Dames à l'arrière-plan) (A Woodland Clearing: Old Man Pidole, with Bouxières-aux-Dames in the background), 1885, oil on panel, 37.5 x 46 cm/14.8 x 18.1 in. Estimate: €20,000/30,000
No fur-clad ladies in interiors this time, but a fisherman equipped with rod and basket on the edge of a clearing. This is probably Old Man Pidole, an emblematic figure of Malzeville, the former…
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