Pre-Valentine Wonderful Sale
Lot 316:
Description
Keywords: École de Paris, impasto, palette-knife handling, figure study, seated model, studio interior, expressionist texture, ochre–slate palette, verso sketch, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, modern figurative, study panel
NO RESERVE Attributed to Albert Flocon, a modernist nude study rendered in oil on board with dense, palette-knife application and robust, textural passages in ochres, cream, slate and blue. The figure is shown seated in profile on a low stool with a blue drape, set against an abstracted studio ground. Unsigned. The reverse carries a rapid line sketch of the same subject and an old Paris annotation: “Alice Casson, 93 rue de Seine, Paris 6e, ” with a price notation “2600 F, ” suggesting mid-20th-century Paris School context.
A strong atelier work consistent with Flocon’s early figurative practice before his later focus on engraving and perspective theory. Attribution based on period, technique, and provenance note; no signature present.
After World War II, Albert Flocon (born Albert Mentzel) settled in Paris, adopted the Flocon name, and in 1946 married Alice Casson. The couple lived in the Saint-Germain quarter (noted at 93 rue de Seine, Paris 6e in period inscriptions) and had two children.
Measurement: Art: 21 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. (54 x 36.8 cm.) approx
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