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HILAIRE HILER (1898 - 1966) Le 14 Juillet.
Oil on canvas board, 1928. 755x631mm; 29¾x24⅞ inches. Signed and dated within the image, left of center.
Provenance The artist, with his ink stamp verso. The Collection of J.B. Neumann, New York. Ferargil Galleries, New York (label). Collection of Max L. Rosenberg, New York. Gifted to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (accession number 1931.31). Christie's, New York, August 29, 2012, lot 162. Private Collection, New York.
Exhibited "Hilaire Hiler Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 6 - June, 1968, number 2.
Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and spent his childhood in Providence, Rhode Island. He lived in Paris as a young man from 1919 until 1934 and frequented, with avant-garde artists and writers of the time, the Jockey Club in Montparnasse, and became friends with the literary crowd of Henry Miller, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and Anaïs Nin. In the present painting, Hiler depicts Bastille Day festivities.
