Claude Tabet : Le Joueur de flûte, 1969 (Watercolour)

By TABET Claude (1924–1979)

Claude Tabet (1924–1979)
Le Joueur de flûte, 1969
Watercolour, pen and black ink
Dated lower left: “Juin 1969”; dedicated lower right: “à l’intention d’Yves Guérin, très très amicalement”, signed “Claude Tabet”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: nearly the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance; the dedications place the collector in the Riviera and Dinard casino milieu).

Description: A theatrical flute player in carnival costume — purple jacket with red frogging, yellow breeches and a wide orange hat — flanked by two smaller costumed figures and a single flower, in a festive, naïve, Commedia-like scene. Claude Tabet was a Paris-born painter, engraver, lithographer, illustrator and ceramist, trained at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and in Souverbie’s studio, celebrated for his resolutely naïve, festive subjects — markets, the Tuileries, fairs and musicians — conceived like theatre, and widely exhibited abroad. The flute player is one of his recurring subjects. Watercolour, signed and dedicated by hand.

Price : 150,00 € ( 170.00 USD )