Lot 420
  • 420

EUGÈNE BOUDIN | Anvers, trois-mats à quai

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Boudin, Eugène
  • Anvers, trois-mats à quai
  • Signed E. Boudin and dated Anvers 1871 (lower right)
  • Oil on panel
  • 11 1/8 by 17 1/4 in.
  • 28.3 by 43.8 cm
  • Painted in 1871.

Provenance

Aurélien Scholl, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland
Knoedler & Co., New York
Henrietta B. Lang, New York (and sold by the estate: Christie's, New York, May 19, 1982, lot 5)
Acquired at the above sale 

Exhibited

Paris, École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres d'Eugène Boudin, 1899, no. 8

Literature

Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, vol. I, Paris, 1973, no. 668, illustrated p. 243

Condition

The panel is sound. There is some minor frame abrasion along the upper edge. The surface is slightly dirty. Under UV inspection, several areas of inpainting in the sky, most notably in the upper left quadrant. A few additional strokes of inpainting near the masts of the ship at center and at left. The work is in good condition.
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