Lot 213
  • 213

Moïse Kisling

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Moïse Kisling
  • Nu couché au drap rose
  • Signed Kisling (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 28 7/8 by 39 3/8 in.
  • 73.2 by 100.1 cm

Provenance

Oscar Ghez, Geneva
Sale: Me Rheims, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, lot 87 (date unknown)
Private Collection, Japan

Exhibited

Geneva, Petit Palais, Rétrospective Moïse Kisling, 1972, n.n.

Literature

Jean Kisling, ed., Kisling 1891-1953, vol. IParis, 1971, no. 51, illustrated p. 332

Condition

Canvas is lined with wax and edges are reinforced with tape. Minor frame abrasion along the top edge. Colors are bright and fresh. Under UV light a few scattered lines of inpainting are visible around the extreme perimeter, likely to address prior frame abrasion and one other small area at lower right fluoresces, otherwise fine. This work is in good condition.
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