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Lot 143
Bruno Schmeltz (French, b. 1938), Autoportrait avec pied
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, signed, presented in an aluminum frame.

DOA 32.25 x 46 in.

From the Collection of Susan Rosenthal and Michael Hershfield, Durham, NC

Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris, France (May 2000)
Private Collection, Jackson,Mississippi
New Orleans Auction Gallery, New Orleans, LA (November 13, 2010)

Beginning his career as a copyist at the Louvre, Schmeltz's first major exhibition was mounted in Paris in 1974 by Pierre Cardin and Pascal Bonafoux. Since then, he has further strengthened his exacting technique, bordering on the hyperreal.

Accompanied by an artist's monograph published in association with Éditions Ramsay, 1991.

Small paint fleck to lower right corner.

$2,000 - 4,000