Christopher Le Brun P.R.A.

Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
Thomas Ammann
Sale, Christie's London, 25th March 1993, lot 167
Private Collection, London

New York, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Christopher Le Brun, 21st September - 22nd October 1983, cat. no.19;
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art, Christopher Le Brun, 12th March - 4th June 1995, cat. no.15.

Bryan Robertson and Charles Saumarez Smith, Christopher Le Brun, Booth-Clibbon Editions, London, 2000, illustrated p.62-3;
Christopher Le Brun (exhibition catalogue), The New Gallery, Walsall, 8th February - 6th April 2008, illustrated p.17.

Original canvas. The canvas is slightly loose in its stretcher, and there is a tiny area of undulation at the extreme bottom left corner. There are areas of fine reticulation to the black pigment on the far right hand side of the composition, with one or two slight and minor instances of cracking to the thicker paint in the fold of the canvas at the extremes, only visible upon extremely close inspection. There are traces of light surface dirt, matter and studio detritus visible upon very close inspection including a few elements running horizontally in the lower third of the work. There are a few tiny, minor specks of paint loss to the bottom half of the piece, which are only visible upon very close inspection. There is very slight flattening to one or two of the thicker raised elements of impasto. This excepting the work appears in good overall condition. Ultraviolet light reveals two small, fine horizontal lines of fluorescence and possible retouching in the bottom left corner, with further traces of fluorescence appearing elsewhere which appear in keeping with the nature of the materials and does not suggest retouching. Unframed. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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We are grateful to the Artist's studio for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.