Live Auction 20111British and European Art
CARLOS SCHWABE (SWISS, 1866–1926)
Lot 12 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

CARLOS SCHWABE (SWISS, 1866–1926)

L’Idéal

Closed15 July 2021

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GBP 93,750

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CARLOS SCHWABE (SWISS, 1866–1926)
L’Idéal
signed ‘O-Carlos Schwabe’ (lower right)
oil on canvas, arched top
40 1/8 x 22 7/8 in. (102 x 58.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1912.

Alain Lesieutre, Paris, by 1969.
with Galleria del Levante, München, by 1977.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 June 1982, lot 133.
Private collection, Japan.

Specialist note


Carlos Schwabe depicts the flight to reach the unobtainbale Ideal. The smooth curves of the figures contrast against the symbolic landscape, and both are embued in the warm pink tones of a mountainous sunset. Schwabe used this successful composition in an earlier work which showed the female figure vieled in his painting Le Mariage du poète et de la muse,1901-1902 (Private collection).
We are grateful to Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot.