Jun 09, 2022 - Sale 2608

Sale 2608 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

GASTON HOFFMANN (1883-1977)

Disorder in the Court.

Oil on canvas, circa 1930. 380x457 mm; 15x18 inches. Signed "Gaston Hoffman" at lower right. Framed.

Gaston Hoffmann worked as a painter, decorator, cartoonist, and illustrator in France and Quebec throughout the first half of the 20th century. This painting is part of Hoffmann's series of humorous scenes featuring young women baring it all before a shocked and titillated audience inside a courtroom.