Lot 164
  • 164

Stephen Lewin fl.1890-c.1910

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Stephen Lewin
  • A contemplative moment
  • signed Lewin and dated 89 lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 1/2 by 36 in.
  • 77.5 by 91.5 cm.

Provenance

The Cooling Galleries, London

Condition

Canvas not lined. Slight buckling to canvas at upper left corner; pigment separation at lower right corner, on the green mantle and near the edge; fine craquelure at upper left and lower left and stronger in the white at upper center. Clean varnish. Under UV light: uneven varnish; inpainting on the whites in the windows; possible old inpainting at upper left.
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