Inv. Leteneur, n.d. [1977], n.p., s.n., private archives: no. [29]: p. [3], salon: Smit Philippe - 'Etude fontaine de l'abbaye de la Verne'/ Dessin aquarellé signé en bas à droite, 53 x 36 [cm].

Provenance

Lotty Urban-Leteneur

Florence Leteneur (by descent)

Exhibitions

No known exhibitions.

Literature & Primary Sources

Massé 1920–1935

Massé, René. Journal. 1920-21, 1924, 1929-31, 1933-1935, 02-04-1933, p. [22] ("… c) Aquarelle – un très grand houx …").

Notes

"Gare de Lyon pour Montereau (8h.41 – 10h.24)/ Philippe vient me chercher à la gare. […] Arrivée au Château. […] L’atelier (les tubes de couleurs)/ les nouvelles œuvres faites dans le Var [et à Fontainebleau]./ [...] c) Aquarelle – un très grand houx, au-dessus un arbre crispé -/ un ruisseau (doit faire une nouvelle œuvre avec ce sujet) […]" (Gare de Lyon to Montereau (8:41 – 10:24). Philippe comes to meet me at the train station. … Arrival at the Chateau. … The studio (the tubes of colours) the new works done in the Var [and in Fontainebleau]….c) Watercolour, a very big holly tree, above a distorted tree – a creek ([Philippe] must do a new work with this subject). …) (Massé, 2 April 1933, p. [21 & 22])

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