Lot 100
  • 100

Carl Holsøe

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Carl Holsøe
  • Kunstneren ved sit Staffeli (Self Portrait)
  • oil on canvas
  • 38 by 32.5cm., 15 by 12¾in.

Provenance

Ingeborg Nordfort, the artist's wife (by 1935)
Sale: Christie's, London, 18 November 1994, lot 215
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 123
Purchased at the above sale by the present owners

Condition

Original canvas. There are some scattered minor flecks of retouching visible under ultraviolet light, notably some very small flecks to the forehead of the figure. Apart from light stretcher marks to the edges and some light frame rubbing along the left edge, this work is in good condition, with rich colours and fine detail, and ready to hang. Held in a simple, wide, gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame.
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