AUCTION 51: A NEW YORK ART AND COLLECTIBLES SALE

AN IVAN PUNI, RUSSIAN, FRENCH, OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING

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Start price: $8,000

Estimated price: $10,000 - $12,000

Buyer's premium:

Jean Albert Pougny, or Ivan Albertovich Puni, (Russian/French, 1894-1956) oil on canvas painting titled "L’Autobus à impériale" ("Double-decker Bus"), 1932–34.

Signed "Pougny" lower right.

Provenance: the Collection of Frederick Leopold William Richardson (American, b. 1876), grandson of architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886).

Note: Jean Albert Pougny was a Russian-French artist who radically changed his artistic style several times from avant-garde, cubism, futurism and suprematism to lyrical primitivism in line with the direction in which also worked Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 13 in., (40 x 33 cm.)

Condition: Perfect.