JULES JOSEPH LEFEBVRE 1836-1911
JULES JOSEPH LEFEBVRE 1836-1911Estimate $12,000 – $15,000
- Lot Sold $12,000 (Hammer Price)
- $14,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
(RECLINING NUDE, CHLOE)
oil on panel
inscribed with dedication "A mon ami E. Pelpel" and signed 'Jules Lefebvre' upper right
18.5 X 39.5CM
PROVENANCE
Fine Australian Paintings including European Paintings and a selection of Fine Furniture, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 14 August 1990, lot 198, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne
Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1861 and the Grand Medal of Honor of the Paris Salon in 1875, Le Febvre is renowned in Australia for his portrait of Chloe, the rather 'hippy, haughty nude', which has hung in Young & Jackson's Hotel in Melbourne since 1908.