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Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)

Lot 12
03.10.2024 16:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
€ 40 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1304187
Lot 12 | Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)
Estimate value
€ 40 000 – 60 000
Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)
L’Heure du sortilège ou Vampyr
signé ‘Clovis Trouille’ (en bas à droite); signé, daté et inscrit ‘Clovis Trouille 57 Avenue Mathurin Moreau Paris 19è L’Heure du sortilège 1960’ (au revers); inscrit ‘l’Heure du sortilège’ (sur le châssis)
huile sur toile dans le cadre de l'artiste
Image: 38.3 x 46.2 cm.
Cadre de l'artiste: 54.2 x 61.5 x 6 cm.
Peint entre 1960 et 1969

signed ‘Clovis Trouille’ (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed ‘Clovis Trouille 57 Avenue Mathurin Moreau Paris 19è L’Heure du sortilège 1960’ (on the reverse); inscribed ‘l’Heure du sortilège’ (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas in the artist's frame
Image: 15 1/8 x 18 ¼ in.
Artist's frame: 21 ¼ x 24 ¼ x 2 3/8 in.
Painted between 1960 and 1969




Provenance

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



Literature

J.-M. Campagne, Clovis Trouille, Ivry, 1969, p. 90 (illustré).
R. Charmet et C. Trouille, Clovis Trouille, Paris, 1972, p. 38 (illustré en couleurs).
C. Prévost, Parcours à travers l'œuvre de Clovis Trouille, Arles, 2003 p. 260 (illustré en couleurs; première version illustrée, p. 261).



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.



Further details

« Je continue à peindre, pour passer le temps selon ma formule : la plus forte image picturale est celle qui présente le degré d’arbitraire le plus élevé et que l’on met le plus longtemps à traduire en langage pratique, à cause d’une énorme contradiction apparente allant jusqu’au paroxysme de certaines vérités qui sont, selon moi, indispensable que ces thèmes soient bien peints, riches de couleur. » Lettre à Alice, 4 septembre 1962.

‘I continue to paint, to kill time, according to my way: the most impactful pictorial image is the one that appears to be the most arbitrary and that takes the longest to translate into practical language, because of an enormous apparent contradiction that goes as far as the paroxysm of certain truths which, in my opinion, are crucial if these subjects are to be well painted, rich in colour'. Letter to Alice, 4 of September of 1962.
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