Private Collection, Stockholm
Private Collection (by descent from the above; sale: Sotheby's, London, 25th June 2002, lot 149)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

The canvas is not lined and there appear to be no signs of retouching visible under UV light. This work is in good original condition.
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Takanori Oguiss's views of the backstreets of Montmartre form the greatest part of his œuvre. A follower of Maurice Utrillo, he trained in Tokyo and moved to Paris in 1927 to join his friends Tsuguharu Foujita and Gen'ichiro Inokuma. The majority of his street scenes are carefully studied and he spent a good deal of his working life in Paris on pavements with a sketchbook, taking in the ambience of Montmartre life. As a painter of street scenes he was devoted to Paris and its eccentricities, Montmartre was a haven for an artist such as Oguiss:

'Ce qui intéresse Oguiss, ce qui est son sujet de prédeliction, c'est le paysage bâti. Oguiss est le peintre de la ville, ou au moins du village.' (Bernard de Montgolfier, 'Oguiss et Paris' in Oguiss (exhibition catalogue), Paris, 1988-89)