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Lot 54

Léon Zack, Russian/French 1892-1980 - Untitled, no.1616, 1959; signed and dated lower right 'Leon...

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Lot 54

Léon Zack, 
Russian/French 1892-1980 - 
Untitled, no.1616, 1959; 
signed and dated lower right 'Leon...

Starting Bid: £3,400

Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000

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Lot 54

Description

Léon Zack
Russian/French 1892-1980 - 

Untitled, no.1616, 1959; 

signed and dated lower right 'Leon Zack 59', 92 x 65 (ARR) 

Provenance: 
with The Waddington Galleries, London (according to the partial label attached to the reverse of the frame); 
Mr Norman B. Katz, purchased from the above (according to the partial label attached to the reverse of the frame);
Sotheby's, New York, 'Contemporary Art', 12th September 2007, lot 327; 

a Private Collection of Post-War Art 

Note: 
the artist exhibited with The Waddington Galleries in December 1959 and 1961. This work is possibly catalogue no.3 from his December 1959 exhibition at The Waddington Galleries. A similar work from the 1959 exhibition, 'Peinture, 1952', is now in the collection of the Tate. 

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