Lot n° 52
Estimation :
300 - 600
EUR
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Result
: 416EUR
Luc HUEBER (1888-1974) - Lot 52
Luc HUEBER (1888-1974)
Portrait of a Woman
Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
H_73 cm W_60 cm
Damage and missing parts
Luc Hueber is one of the major figures of 20th-century Alsatian painting. Trained in an artistic context open to European influences, he developed a body of work marked by post-impressionism and a constant search for color, structure and pictorial expression.
Hueber places particular emphasis on the simplification of form. Landscapes, urban scenes and human figures are structured by large masses of color, giving compositions a strong visual presence. This approach reflects a desire to go beyond the simple description of reality to achieve a more synthetic expression.
Alsatian landscapes play an important role in his work. However, the artist does not seek to offer a strictly faithful representation: he transforms them through color and pictorial rhythm, thus revealing their expressive dimension.
His work is on display at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Strasbourg, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Mulhouse.
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