Françoise Gilot - Départ - image-1

Lot 389 D

Françoise Gilot - Départ

Auction 1099 - overview Cologne
01.12.2017, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 6.200 € (incl. premium)

Françoise Gilot

Départ
1963

Oil on canvas 14 x 18 cm Framed. Signed 'F.Gilot.' in black lower right and additionally signed 'Francoise Gillot-Picasso' verso on the stretcher and titled 'DÉPART` in blue chalk. - Minimal craqueleur resp. unobtrusive shrinkage cracks; edges and corner minimally bumped.

The composition belongs to to the cycle "Série du Labyrinthe", a series of pictures after the Greek myth of the Minotaur that Gilot created in the years 1961-1963. In a very personal and symbolic manner, the artist formally processes the tale of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur with abstractly maritime allusions.

Certificate

The authenticity was confirmed by Arélia Engel, San Diego/Kalifornien, daughter of Francoise Gilot; the work is registered under the archive number 551.03 in the "Francoise Gilot Archives".

Provenance

Private collection, France

Literature

Francoise Gilot, Monographie 1940-2000, Lausanne 2000, cf. p. 395