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Émile Friant's Artistic Friendships

Result EUR88,480
Published on , by Anne Doridou-Heim
Auction on 04 October 2019 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

This fine composition by Émile Friant consolidates the roots of this somewhat unclassifiable Nancy painter in the art history of the second half of the 19th century.

Émile Friant (1863-1932), L’Ébauche (The Sketch), 1885, oil on panel, 55 x 45 cm.Result:... Émile Friant's Artistic Friendships

Émile Friant (1863-1932), L’Ébauche (The Sketch), 1885, oil on panel, 55 x 45 cm.
Result: €88,480

Artists loved to paint each other, and art history is teeming with such works, executed often in friendship and sometimes in homage. With the 1885 panel here, Émile Friant became part of this long genealogy. The appealing, well-named L’Ébauche ( The Sketch ) garnered €88,480.…
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