Lot 209
  • 209

Eugenio Lucas Villamil Madrid 1858-1918

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Eugenio Lucas Villamil
  • Baile en el Campo (The Country Dance)
  • signed Lucas l.l.

  • oil on canvas

  • 73 by 101.5cm., 28¾ by 40in.

Provenance

José Camins, Madrid; thence by descent to the present owners

Condition

Original canvas. There is a spot of retouching in the sky to the left of the work, some spots to the gentleman in the foreground's back, spot upper left of the dancing figures and a spot to the tree behind the guitarist all corresponding to repairs in the canvas. There are a few further small scattered flecks of retouching elsewhere. Apart from some faint craquelure the paint surface is overall in good condition with areas of strong impasto. Held in a plaster moulded gilt frame.
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