Henri Lebasque

M. Henri Cahen, Paris
Private Collection, France (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1997, lot 164)
Acquired at the above sale

Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, H. Lebasque, 1927, no. 77
Paris, Musée Galliera, Rétrospective H. Lebasque, 1952, no. 88

Paul Vitry, Henri Lebasque, Paris, 1928, illustrated p. 75
Denise Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris, 2008, no. 1315, illustrated p. 319

Canvas has been strip lined. A web of thin stable cracking is visible in areas of thicker pigment on the right side of the canvas (in the depicted blue curtain). Under UV light: the top quarter of the work (depicting the sky) has undergone extensive inpainting. A long band of inpainting is visible across the center of the top edge, and this inpainting extends downward, further into the sky in a series of larger strokes and pindot retouches. There are two areas of repair: one 1 in. repaired tear in the center of the top fourth of the canvas and one pindot repair 5 in. from the left and 5 in. below the top of the canvas. There are a few strokes of inpainting in one of the houses near the center of the canvas, as well as a few pindot retouches and strokes in the lower part of the curtain and along the bottom fourth of the canvas. Overall the work is in good condition.
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