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Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Lot 11 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE LONDON COLLECTOR

Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)

Fin de belle journée, soleil couchant, pêcheur

Closed15 December 2015

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GBP 7,500

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Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Fin de belle journée, soleil couchant, pêcheur
signed 'L Lhermitte’ (lower left)
pastel on paper
20 ¾ x 37 in. (52.7 x 94 cm.)
Executed circa 1921.

with Galerie Allard, Paris.
with Wallis French Gallery, London.
Sir George Wilson, Killearn, Stirlingshire.
Acquired from the above by a private collector, circa 1972.
And thence by descent to his son.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 24 November 2009, lot 147.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present pastel was conceived on the banks of the Marne. The larger oil version of this composition is in the collection of the National Gallery of Dublin (M. Le Pelley Fonteney, Léon Augustin Lhermitte. Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 125, no. 112).

We are grateful to the Comité Lhermitte, Galerie Brame & Lorenceau, for confirming the authenticity of the present lot.