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Lot 45:
1993 Lyse Marsan "Les Medievales sont en Ville" Painting
Description
Oil on canvas depicting a stylized female figure rendered in a modernist idiom inspired by medieval iconography. The figure is presented frontally, with simplified facial features and angular planes of color, wearing a head covering evocative of medieval costume.
The title, Les médiévales sont en ville (“The medieval women are in the city”), suggests a conceptual displacement of medieval imagery into a modern or urban context, a theme consistent with post-war figurative painting of the 1970s.
Details
Artist: Lyse Marsan (Canadian, 20th century)
Title: Les médiévales sont en ville
Date: 1975
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signature: Signed
Inscriptions:
Verso, handwritten in pencil: “Les médiévales sont en ville – Lyse Marsan – 1975”
Image Size: approx. 29 × 40 in. (73.5 × 101.5 cm)
Framed Size: approx. 38 × 48 in. (96.5 × 122 cm)
Frame: Giltwood frame with cream mat
Condition:
Canvas stable
Light surface wear consistent with age
Frame with minor wear and scattered losses
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