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Lot 368:
Description
Keywords: Modernist portrait, French modern art, post-war painting, figurative abstraction, expressive brushwork, impasto surface, École de Paris, mid-century art, oil portrait, European modernism
Gérard Cabus signed and dated ’65 French Modernist oil painting depicting a stylized female portrait. Executed with heavy impasto and expressive, gestural brushwork.
NO RESERVE Cabus was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1928 and later worked in Paris. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the École Estienne in Paris, exhibiting extensively in France and internationally, including New York. This work is presented in a period giltwood frame. Artist biography label affixed to the verso.
Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Circa 1965.
Measurement: Art: 18 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (46.4 x 33.7 cm.), Frame: 23 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (60.3 x 47 cm.) approx
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