ID 1304140
Lot 8 | Clovis Trouille (1889 -1975)
Estimate value
€ 50 000 – 80 000
Le Rêve vampyr ou Le Rêve vampire
signé ‘Clovis Trouille’ (en bas à droite); inscrit 'LE RÊVE VAMPYR' (sur le cadre de l'artiste); signé et inscrit 'Clovis Trouille 57 Avenue Mathurin Moreau Paris 19è' (au revers); inscrit ‘LE RÊVE VAMPYR’ (sur le châssis)
huile sur toile dans le cadre de l’artiste
Image: 46.3 x 55 cm.
Cadre de l'artiste: 57 x 65.4 x 5 cm.
Peint en 1960-62
signed ‘Clovis Trouille’ (lower right); inscribed 'LE RÊVE VAMPYR' (on the artist's frame); signed and inscribed 'Clovis Trouille 57 Avenue Mathurin Moreau Paris 19è' (on the reverse); inscribed ‘LE RÊVE VAMPYR’ (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas in the artist's frame
Canvas: 18 ¼ x 21 5/8 in.
Artist's frame: 22 3/8 x 25 ¾ x 2 in.
Painted in 1960-62
Provenance
Atelier de l’artiste.
Puis par succession aux propriétaires actuels.
Literature
O. Volta, Le Vampire, Paris, 1962, p. 231 (illustré).
J.-M. Campagne, Clovis Trouille, Ivry, 1969, p. 134 (illustré).
R. Charmet et C. Trouille, Clovis Trouille, Paris, 1972, p. 35 (illustré en couleurs, p. 34-35; détail illustré en couleurs, p. 33).
C. Prévost, Parcours à travers l'œuvre de Clovis Trouille, Arles, 2003, p. 232 (illustré en couleurs; détail illustré en couleurs p. 234).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Raymond Cordier, Clovis Trouille, mars 1963, no. 6.
Paris, Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Exposition Clovis Trouille, octobre 1999-janvier 2000 (sans catalogue).
Ostende, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Clovis Trouille, mars-novembre 2002, no. 42.
Further details
« Au milieu, la bohémienne endormie (qui n’est pas celle du Douanier Rousseau) vient d’être mordue par un vampire et va devenir vampire sous le regard épouvanté du sphynx d’Egypte. A droite, une femme en colère contre Nosfératu car elle est en train de devenir vampire. »
‘In the middle, the sleeping gypsy woman (not the one by Douanier Rousseau) has just been bitten by a vampire and she is about to become a vampire as the Egyptian sphynx bears witness to the scene in horror. On the right, there is a woman who is angry with Nosfératu for becoming a vampire'.
Artist: | Clovis Trouille (1889 - 1975) |
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Art style: | Surrealism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Clovis Trouille (1889 - 1975) |
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Art style: | Surrealism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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