Lot 157
  • 157

François Bonvin

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • François Bonvin
  • A Kitchen Maid
  • signed and dated F. Bonvin 48 lower left

  • watercolor heightened with gouache over charcoal on paper prepared with brown wash.  Together with Attributed to François Bonvin, Studies of Beached Boats, a Lock, Two Figures and a Hat, bears signature and date FB Etretat 52 lower right, pencil heightened with brown chalk on laid paper. 2 works.
  • the first 11 1/2 by 6 1/2 in.; the second 7 1/2 by 13 in.
  • 29.2 by 16.5 cm; 19 by 33 cm

Provenance

The first: Collection of M. Pasteur, Paris
Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris, 1975
Private collection, New York
W.M. Brady & Co., New York, 1989
Mrs. Arthur G. Cohen, New York
By whom gifted to Charles Ryskamp, 1992
The second: Cove Landing, New York
Acquired from the above, 2002

Exhibited

The first: Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Un Siècle d'Aquarelle, March, 1942
New York, W.M. Brady & Co., Master Drawings 1700-1890, 1989, no. 32, (as private collection, New York City)
Morgan 2001, no. 101
Yale 2010, no. 178
The second: Yale 2010, no. 120

Condition

The first: In generally good condition. Not examined out of frame. Scratches to plexiglass, lower right are of drawing. The second: In generally good condition aside from surface dirt, handling creases, possible creases or paper faults right 1/4 of sheet, faint light stain, spot of paper loss upper left edge. Not examined out of frame.
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