Lot 209
  • 209

Camille Bombois 1883-1970

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Description

  • Camille Bombois
  • Les Lavandieres
  • signed Bombois Clle (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 15 by 18 1/4 in.
  • 38.1 by 46.4 cm.

Provenance

Henri Bin, Paris
David Findlay Galleries, New York
(sold: Sotheby's, New York, February 26, 1981, lot 54)
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

Canvas is lined. In good condition aside from pigment separation in trees along riverbank. Cracquelure in sky upper center. Approx. 3-inch diagonal line of cracquelure in center from woman's face to riverbank. Scratches to paint surface upper left. Under UV: minute scattered spots of in-paint in the sky.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Dina Vierny.