Modern British & 20th Century Art - Day 1 - 4th December 2024
Lot 657
ΦSimon Bussy (French 1870-1954)
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £8820
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Description
ΦSimon Bussy (French 1870-1954)
The Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Kephren
Signed Simon/Bussy (lower right)
Pastel
29.3 x 27.3cm
Provenance:
The Artist's Studio Sale, Sotheby's, London, 17 December 1964, lot 44, where purchased by Woods Wilson
Exhibited:
Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Pastels by Simon Bussy and Contemporary Paintings, February-March 1931, no.5
Simon Bussy travelled to Egypt and the Middle-East between November 1928 and April 1929. Philippe Loisel believes the present work was probably executed in November 1928, although Busy also revisited Cairo in late February and early March the following year.
The present work later served as the basis for Bussy’s Les grandes pyramides de Gisèh en saison de crue (see Gabriel Hanotaux, Histoire de la Nation Egyptienne (Paris, 1931-1940), vol. II, p. 80).
We are grateful to Philippe Loisel for confirming the authenticity of the present work.