Child in Garden
Initialed lower right: BL
Description
Bernard Lamotte continually returned to Paris for his preferred subject matter, distilling with his brush the fleeting moments of everyday life in the quartiers, parks, and cafés of his beloved City of Light.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Inscriptions
Labels
(typed label verso of board) A little girl, with fair, reddish hair, who appeared to be returning from a walk, and held a trowel in her hand, was looking at us, raising towards us a face powdered with pinkish freckles. Her black eyes gleamed… / (ML, p. 180)
Exhibitions
Bernard Lamotte (1903-1983), Vose Galleries, Boston, October 4 – November 15, 2014
Literature
Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way. 1917. Reprint. New York: The Heritage Press, 1954. Print. (illus. opp. page 149)
Condition
Very good. Unframed. Archivally matted.
Frame Details
Description
Bernard Lamotte continually returned to Paris for his preferred subject matter, distilling with his brush the fleeting moments of everyday life in the quartiers, parks, and cafés of his beloved City of Light.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Inscriptions
Labels
(typed label verso of board) A little girl, with fair, reddish hair, who appeared to be returning from a walk, and held a trowel in her hand, was looking at us, raising towards us a face powdered with pinkish freckles. Her black eyes gleamed… / (ML, p. 180)
Exhibitions
Bernard Lamotte (1903-1983), Vose Galleries, Boston, October 4 – November 15, 2014
Literature
Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way. 1917. Reprint. New York: The Heritage Press, 1954. Print. (illus. opp. page 149)
Condition
Very good. Unframed. Archivally matted.
