16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
Lot 1089
 

1089

Adolphe Valette (1861-1942) French
"Rocher Corneillee, Le Puy" 1925
Signed, signed, inscribed and dated to label verso, oil on board, 31cm by 40.5cm

Provenance: The Perera collection, No. 18
Purchased from Andre Valette (artist's wife)

Exhibited: City of Salford Art Galleries, 21st September - 28th October 1984, Salford
Portsmouth City Museum, "Adolphe Valette", 12th February - 27th March 1983

Sold for £9,000
Estimated at £5,000 - £8,000


 

From what is visible the panel looks in good condition, flat with no splits apparent from the face. There are a series of unretouched losses to the right hand side of the picture through the right hand house (see images), caused by damage rather than instability of the paint. Very minor marks around other edges perhaps from a previous frame rebate. Minor stable drying cracks in line with the grain of the panel particularly to the top mid left of the sky and middle of the left edge. Minor small scattered losses to the sky top left corner, bottom left corner and in the grey shadow under the wheelbarrow, unretouched. There is an uneven spotting accretion across the whole surface (see images) perhaps mould? There is no apparent restoration, in good, stable condition.

Examined in Frame

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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Mar, 2024

Coming up for auction this Spring are three notable works by Adolphe Valette (1876-1942), a French Impressionist artist who spent the majority of his career in the North of England. Whilst he is best remembered today as being the highly influential tutor to L.S. Lowry, Valette created a significant body of work in oils, watercolours and drawing media. All three works are sold with provenance from The Perera Collection, the largest collection of works by Valette to have been assembled in private hands.

Further notable works in the sale include an exquisitely detailed still life of a peach, black grapes and cobnuts on a marble shelf by Emilie Preyer (1849-1930), and a work by historical genre painter Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) that depicts the hero of a popular comic ballad, John Gilpin.

The sale will also see the final part of the Raymond Booth Studio, comprising 19 works. Raymond Booth (1929-2015) was perhaps the greatest botanical artist and illustrator of his generation, and his passion for the natural world shines through in his highly detailed oil studies of flora and fauna.

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