Lot 500
  • 500

Marie Laurencin

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Marie Laurencin
  • JEUNE FILLE AU BOUQUET
  • signed Marie Laurencin (upper right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 55.2 by 46cm., 20 1/2 by 18 1/8 in.

Provenance

Sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 10th June 1953, lot 121
Sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1st December 1959, lot 67
G. Blair Gallery, Toronto
Winnipeg Foundation, Winnipeg (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 10th May 1989, lot 407)

Literature

Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Tokyo, 1986, vol. II, no. 942, illustrated p. 394

Condition

The canvas is lined. Apart from a small 1cm. sq. area of retouching above the head of the woman, this work is in good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate, although brighter in the original.
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