Whytes Important Irish Art 25 May 2015 - (click Date on Lot pages to add to your Calendar)

Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908-1979)

LE REPAS LA MARSEILLES, 1954

oil on canvas

signed upper left; signed again and inscribed with title and artist’s reference number [2055] on reverse (now concealed

beneath backing board)

39_ x 28_in. (100.33 x 72.39cm)

Provenance:

Purchased in Paris directly from the artist by a friend, c.1955; Whyte’s, 30 November 2004, lot 109;

Private collection

From the middle of May to the middle of July 1954 Basil Rákóczi was living in Menton and regularly travelled along the

coast of France. The present example was painted in early June 1954. A companion piece to Le Repas La Marseilles, a

preparatory work in gouache entitled At Table chez la Marseillaise, can be found in the collection of the artist’s family

and dates to late May of the same year. The present example was originally bought by a close friend of Rákóczi’s in 1955

in Paris.

We are grateful to Christopher Rákóczi for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

€ 5,000.00- € 7,000.00 (£3,730-£5,220 approx.)

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