Lot 122
  • 122

Louis Valtat 1869-1952

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Louis Valtat
  • Le Tango
  • signed with stamped initials L. V (lower right)
  • oil on paper laid on canvas 
  • 11 1/4 by 7 1/2 in.
  • 28.4 by 19 cm.
  • painted in 1930

Provenance

Wally Findlay Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1966

Literature

Dr. Jean Valtat, Louis Valtat, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Peint, Vol. I, Paris, 1977, no. 2110, p. 235, illustrated

Condition

slight craquelure to edges, minor surface soiling, under uv light possible inpainting around edges, scattered touches of inpaint to background
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