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

Lot 47
03.10.2024 16:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Starting price
€ 50 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1304219
Lot 47 | Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)
Estimate value
€ 50 000 – 80 000
Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)
Devant la légende d’une main fameuse
signé ‘Clovis Tro [sic]’ (en bas à droite); signé et inscrit ‘Clovis Trouille 57 Avenue Mathurin Moreau Paris 19è’ (au revers); inscrit ‘Devant la légende d’une main fameuse’ (sur le châssis)
huile sur toile dans le cadre de l'artiste
Image: 100 x 81.3 cm.
Cadre de l'artiste: 102.2 x 83 x 2.2 cm.
Peint en 1970-71

signed ‘Clovis Tro [sic]’ (lower right); signed and inscribed ‘Clovis Trouille 57 Avenue Mathurin Moreau Paris 19è’ (on the reverse); inscribed ‘Devant la légende d’une main Fameuse’ (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas in the artist's frame
Image: 39 3/8 x 32 in.
Artist's frame: 40 ¼ x 32 ¾ x 0/7/8 in.
Painted in 1970-71




Provenance

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



Literature

R. Charmet et C. Trouille, Clovis Trouille, Paris, 1972, p. 50 (premier état illustré, p. 51).
C. Prévost, Parcours à travers l'œuvre de Clovis Trouille, Arles, 2003 p. 270 (illustré en couleurs; premier état illustré p. 271).



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.
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. 29, no. 19 (illustré en couleurs).



Further details

« Les religieuses méditent devant l’affiche du cinéma. Leurs mains indiquent le « calibre ». Le titre se rapporte à l’affiche et fait allusion à la phrase bien connue « la main de ma sœur dans la culotte d’un zouave ». Le geste de la fille vient de ce que j’ai vu dans ma jeunesse…».

‘The nuns meditate in front of the cinema poster. Their hands are pointing to the 'calibre'. The title refers to the poster and alludes to the well-known saying 'my sister's hand in a zouave's knickers'. The girl's gesture comes from what I saw in my youth...'
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