Claude WEISBUCH
French 1927 - 2014
Weisbuch studied at the Beaux-arts de Nancy (today's L'École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy), and excelled at every type of lithograph making. Around 1951, he started making his career through exhibitions in varioussalons. In 1961, he won the Critics' Prize. He was adept at portraying human figures, horses, and opera. After the
1960s, Weisbuch gradually developed his own style and sense of brush, reducing the use of colors while making the strokes smoother. He often chose performances with musical instruments, hunchbacked clowns in Italian masquerades as subjects of his paintings. He used unique strokes to express bodily movement. The dynamic parts resemble repeated exposures of a camera; through this, the artist captures movement giving his work a unique touch. Being an important contemporary French artist, Weisbuch’s works in widely collected by major institutions and museums of the world, including New York Modern Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Academie Royale in Belgium and more.
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Vibrato
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm
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Estimate
320,000 - 480,000 82,000 - 123,000 10,500 - 15,800 73,000 - 109,000
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Violoniste
1991
Oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm
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Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 54,000 - 81,000 6,900 - 10,300 43,000 - 65,000
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Sold Price
264,000 69,474 8,847
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Cirque
1990
Oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm
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Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 32,000 - 49,000 4,100 - 6,200 26,000 - 39,000
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Sold Price
156,000 41,053 5,228
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Petite Coquetterie
1985
Oil on canvas
50 x 61 cm
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Estimate
360,000 - 550,000 93,000 - 141,000 11,900 - 18,200
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Violinist
Oil on canvas
92 x 73.5 cm
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Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 103,000 - 154,000 13,300 - 19,900
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Discours de l'inutile
1984
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm
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Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 180,000 - 257,000 23,200 - 33,100
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