Oil on canvas.
Measuring:(730 x 500mm. approx)
Signed COUTELAS

Inscribed and signed verso. Coutelas Robert- 92 Rue du Corduval, Lenone, Paris.

With Exhibition label verso: #18

Galerie Romanet, 18 Ave. Matignon. VIII

Superb condition benefitting from recent cleaning and relining.

Offered on behalf of a private client.

PROVENANCE:
Inherited by decent in 1985.

Formerly in the collection of socialite Mrs.Thomas Loel Guinness (Gloria Guinness) heiress to the Guinness fortune.

purchased in Paris, it hung in the Guinness mansion at their Estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

Gloria Rubio y Alatorre, better known as Gloria Guinness (August 27, 1912 - November 9th, 1980 ) was an elegant, earthy socialite and writer of the mid 20th century. Heiress to the Guinness beer fortune and friend of Princess Grace of Monaco, the Duchess of Windsor, Princess Bismarck, the Duchess of Cadiz, Pauline de Rothschild, Marlene Dietrich. et al.

Born in Vera Cruz , Mexico , she was a daughter of Josafael Rubio, a Mexican journalist, and his wife, Dolores Alatorre. She was known to have been married three times, though some sources indicate one more husband, surname Scholtens.
Her first official husband, whom she married in 1935, was Count Franz Egon von Fürstenberg -Herdringen, by whom she had one daughter, Countess Dolores von Fürstenberg -Herdringen (born in 1936, she married her stepbrother Patrick Guinness)
Her second husband was Ahmed Fakhri Bey (1921-1988), a grandson of King Fuad I of Egypt and a nephew of both Princess Fawzia of Egypt (the first wife of Reza Pahlavi , Shah of Iran) and King Farouk I of Egypt .

Her third husband, whom she married in 1951, was Group Capt. Thomas Loel Guinness, a Member of Parliament (died 1989) and an heir to the Guinness beer fortune.

Gloria Guinness died in 1980 in Lausanne Switzerland .

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Biographic:

Robert Coutelas was born in Paris on the 17th March 1930 and died in 1985.

He was a French contemporary painter who widely exhibited world wide and is best known for his still lifes and street scenes.

Exh. NYC, Rome,Paris.

Prix Orthon Friez, Prix Feneon, Lauriat du prix de la Critique.

Other works by Robert Coutelas:

La fête au village, Nature morte aux pinceaux, 1960-Bouquet au pichet, 1960-Les collines vertes, 1961- L'embarcadère, 1960-Palette du peintre, 1958- Coin d'atelier, 1959, Panier de fleurs, 1964-Poivrons, poires et bouteille de chianti, 1952- Bouquet au fond bleu, 1960- Nuit ardéchoise 1960-Bouquet stylisé 1959, Bal du 14 Juillet 1960, Village la nuit 1960, Jetée de fleurs 1959, Falaise, la nuit, Les toits 1959, Les manèges 1961, Le port 1959.

See:

Benezet
Comanducci Arte Italia - Catalogo Artitsti

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