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This is the rating and price for CYTHERE (OU AVRIL A IVRY) by Abdallah Benanteur


Abdallah Benanteur (1931-2007)
About the lot N° 175
CYTHERE (OU AVRIL A IVRY) ,1984.0
Medium: oil on canvas, triptych
Size : 81 x 60cm 92 x 72cm 92 x 193cm
Signature: signed 'benanteur' (on the right panel), each panel signed, titled and dated 'benanteur cythere 1984' (on the reverse), central panel titled 'cythere, ou AVRIL A IVRY' (on the reverse)
Price: 46 600.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 40000 USD-60000 USD It's free to register now to view!
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Sale Title : International Modern and Contemporary Art It's free to register now to view!
Sale date : 30 Apr 2008 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

Notes : Benanteur's painting, renewed year after year by his growing knowledge of museums, little by little gave up the discipline of stripping down, and gave itself up wholeheartedly, finding a new landscape, where he attained a certain form of beatitude, a kind of heavenly garden reconstituting by combining them, the thousand and one mornings of the world. Here, from one triptych to another, the figure is no more than a clue, a mark, indicating the measure of man's coming to grips with the world and its elements. An enchanted earth, no longer altered but bathed by the rising and setting sunlight, overrun by the coolness of rivers across the countryside, hiding its sources in the prairies' dense grass, and inside the mossy rocks of the dark and deep forests.(Raoul-Jean Moulin, 'Benanteur's own Imaginary', in Claude Lemand (ed.) Benanteur Volume 1: Paintings, Paris, 2002, p. 17)

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