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Lot 39 PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION
Cherubino Pata (French, 1827-1884)
La Cascade de la Billaude, Franche Comté
Closed23 January 2008
Price Realised
GBP 24,500
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Specialist note
Cherubino Pata is best known as Gustave Courbet's (see lot 40-41) most important pupil and assistant, working and travelling with his master during the last four year's of the his life.
However Pata was also an accomplished painter in his own right. The present lot, a monumental rendition of a famous waterfall in the Jura region of France (see fig. 1), is notable not only for its size, but also for its technique, in which colour is applied with a palette knife in large blocks to the give the paint surface an almost sculptural quality, which reinforces the sense of mass projected by the huge boulders and waterfall.
However Pata was also an accomplished painter in his own right. The present lot, a monumental rendition of a famous waterfall in the Jura region of France (see fig. 1), is notable not only for its size, but also for its technique, in which colour is applied with a palette knife in large blocks to the give the paint surface an almost sculptural quality, which reinforces the sense of mass projected by the huge boulders and waterfall.