Le baptême de l'air

Details

Félix Labisse (1905-1982)
Le baptême de l'air
signed 'LABISSE.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in. (60 x 73 cm.)
Painted in 1942

Provenance

Henri Storck, Brussels.
André Janssen, Antwerp, at least until 1972.
Carlo De Poortere, Belgium.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 June 1996, lot 178.
Private collection, The Netherlands, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Literature

I. Brachot (ed.), Labisse, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Brussels, 1979, no. 146, p. 81 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Knokke, Casino Communal, Felix Labisse, Exposition rétrospective, July - September 1960 (titled 'Les malheurs de la guerre').
Brussels, Societé Auxiliare des expositions du palais des Beaux-Arts, Le Surrealisme, 1972, no. 224 (titled 'Les malheurs de la guerre'); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst and Paris, Palais du Louvre.
Ostende, Kursaal Oostende, Labisse, 50 ans de peinture, June - August 1979.

Special notice

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