Lot 133
  • 133

EMILE FRIANT | Self-portrait reading in the studio, also known as The Student

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 EUR
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Description

  • Emile Friant
  • Self-portrait reading in the studio, also known as The Student
  • Signed lower right E. Friant
  • Oil on canvas laid down on panel
  • 35,2 x ; 33 cm ; 14 by 13 in.

Exhibited

Les 33, galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1889 n° 110 ;
Émile Friant, regard sur l'homme et l'œuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 8 July - 4 October 1988 p.51 n°28 ;
Peinture et Art Nouveau, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 24 April -26 July 1999, illustrated in color p.24 illustration 10, n°4 in the catalogue ;
Emile Friant un nouveau regard, Musée Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 10 June -3 September 2006, illustrated n° 108, p.65 and illustrated in full page p.76 ;
Emile Friant, le dernier naturaliste ?, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 4 November 2016 - 27 February 2017, n°38d, illustrated p. 97

Literature

Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, illustrated p. 44

Condition

very thin canvas; the panel on which the canvas has been mounted is slit from top to bottom vertically. This slit has created a very long craquelure across the surface vertically on the right of the face, across the flaps of the jacket (visible in the catalogue in the lower end); the craquelure has been restored in some places in the lower end and the sky; some little repainted areas along the edges and scattered across the surface; some tiny repainted areas hardly visible under UV light in the neck and the cheek; very good overall condition
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