Description
André Hambourg (French, 1909-1999)
Title and Date: Nu couchée, 1933
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 21-1/2 x 32 inches (54.6 x 81.3 cm)
Framed: 28.75 x 39 inches
Signed and dated lower right: A. Hambourg 1933
Provenance:
Christie’s, New York, June 14, 2017, lot 54;
Private collection;
Christie’s, New York, August 22, 2019, lot 22;
Private collection, Indiana, acquired from the above.
Literature:
L. Harambourg, André Hambourg, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. I, Paris, 2009, p. 58, no. NU14.
The artist André Hambourg (5 May 1909 – 4 December 1999) was a French painter of romantic compositions of Venice, luminous seascapes, and beach scenes.
André Hambourg was born in Paris on 5 May 1909. Entering the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in 1926, he studied sculpture under Paul Niclausse for four years. The young artist then entered the studio of Lucien Simon at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. While in the middle of his academic studies, Hambourg had his debut solo exhibition at the Galerie Taureau in Paris in 1928. He was only 19 years old at the time. Because of the early recognition of his talent, Hambourg became active in the important Paris salons in the first stages of his developing career. In 1931, he was made a member of the Salon de l’Art Français Indépendant and the Salon de l’Oeuvre Unique.
Hambourg would receive many honors and awards over his lifetime. The Cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, was given to him by the President of the French Republic in 1951. In 1986 he was made Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, as well as Commandeur of the Legion of Honor. Finally, in 1996 he became Grand Officier de l’Ordre National du Merite
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