Lot 207. JEAN LAMBERT-RUCKI (1888-1967)
‘LA TOUR EIFFEL’, 1924
oil on board, painted wood frame
3 ¾ x 3 1/8 in. (9.5 x 8 cm.)
9 x 9 ¾ in. (23 x 24.8 cm.) including frame
signed and dated upper right J. Lambert-Rucki 1924

Provenance: Camard & Associés, Paris, Arts Décoratifs du XXe Siècle, 1 June 2005, lot 87.

Jean Lambert-Rucki was one of a significant number of artists from across Europe drawn to Paris in the years before the Great War by the city’s reputation as the most exciting centre of creativity in the arts. He arrived in 1911 from his native Poland and soon found himself at the heart of a milieu that included Csaky, Miklos, and Modigliani.

Lambert-Rucki worked in various media, though with a consistency of vision that expressed itself in witty figurative subjects, animal and human, rendered, in two or three dimensions in a playful, colourful interpretation of Cubism – as perfectly evidenced in the two paintings in the present collection.

Estimate $8,000-12,000. Christies. 12/17/15