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EUROPEAN ART & OLD MASTERS
14 JUNE 2016
LOT 175
EDWARD CUCUEL
(german/american 1879-1954)
"EAST WIND"
Signed 'Cucuel' bottom right; also signed and
inscribed with title on stretcher verso, oil on canvas
27 3/4 x 20 in. (70.5 x 50.8cm)
provenance:
Freeman's, sale of December 8, 2002, lot 66.
Freeman's, sale of June 27, 2004, lot 112.
Acquired from the above.
Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
note:
Edward Cucuel studied under the Orientalist painter
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). A member of the
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and exhibitor with
the Salon d'Automne, Cucuel worked in a generally
impressionist style and concentrated on figural
subject matter, along with landscapes. He is best
known for his oils of elegant women rendered with
rich impasto and vibrant, highly-keyed colors in sun
dappled settings or interiors.
Estimate $50,000-80,000
Unsold
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