Clovis Trouille (1889-1975) - photo 1
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Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)

Lot 2
03.10.2024 16:00UTC +00:00
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€ 60 480
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1304142
Lot 2 | Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)
Estimate value
€ 40 000 – 60 000
Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)
Bikini
signé ‘Clovis Trouille’ (en bas à droite); inscrit 'BIKINI' (sur le cadre de l'artiste); signé et inscrit ‘Bikini Clovis Trouille 57 Avenue Mathurin Moreau Paris 19è’ (au revers)
huile sur toile dans le cadre de l’artiste
Image: 33 x 46 cm.
Cadre de l'artiste: 43.9 x 56.6 x 4.5 cm.
Peint en 1946

signed ‘Clovis Trouille’ (lower right); inscribed 'BIKINI' (on the artist's frame); signed and inscribed ‘Bikini Clovis Trouille 57 Avenue Mathurin Moreau Paris 19è’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas in the artist's frame
Canvas: 13 x 18 1/8 in.
Artist's frame: 17 ¼ x 22 ¼ x 1 ¼ in.
Painted in 1946




Provenance

Atelier de l’artiste.
Puis par succession aux propriétaires actuels.



Literature

R. Charmet et C. Trouille, Clovis Trouille, Paris, 1972, p. 28 (illustré, p. 28 et 29).
C. Prévost, Parcours à travers l'œuvre de Clovis Trouille, Arles, 2003, p. 174 (illustré en couleurs; détail illustré en couleurs, p. 157).



Exhibited

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. 27.
Amiens, Musée de Picardie, Clovis Trouille, Un peintre libre et iconoclaste, avril-août 2007, p. 25 (illustré en couleurs).
L'Isle-Adam, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Louis-Senlecq; Charleville-Mézières, Musée Arthur-Rimbaud et Laval, Musée du Vieux-Château, Voyous, voyants, voyeurs, Autour de Clovis Trouille, novembre 2009-janvier 2011, p. 12, no. 4 (illustré en couleurs, p. 13).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Carambolages, mars-juillet 2016, no. 50 (illustré en couleurs).



Further details

« Ce sont des bonnes femmes qui excitent un moine (elles ont un bikini). Le moine, troublé par les filles, est en danger. Il sera sauvé parce qu’arrive une troupe de spahis qui vont s’envoyer les bikinis. »

‘These are women who are arousing a monk (as they are wearing bikinis). Distracted by the girls, the monk is in danger. He will be spared given that a troop of spabis is on its way and they are going to have a roll in the hay with the bikinis’.
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