Lot Essay
From the present work, Barry painted the larger oil, Notre Dame Paris, Evening (1963), sold Christie's, London, 24 November 2016, lot 155.
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Notre Dame
Details
Sir Claude Francis Barry (1883-1970)
Notre Dame
signed with initials '.CFB.' (lower left); signed in pencil 'Francis Barry.' (lower right, in the margin)
etching
20½ x 22½ in. (52 x 57 cm.)
Executed in the late 1920-30s.
Notre Dame
signed with initials '.CFB.' (lower left); signed in pencil 'Francis Barry.' (lower right, in the margin)
etching
20½ x 22½ in. (52 x 57 cm.)
Executed in the late 1920-30s.
Provenance
Tom Skinner, the artist's executor, from whom purchased by the present owner, 1974.
Literature
K. Campbell, Moon Behind Clouds: An Introduction to the life and work of Sir Claude Francis Barry, Jersey, 1999, p. 130, no. 797, illustrated.
Special notice
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