Lot 234
  • 234

Émile-Othon Friesz

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Émile Othon Friesz
  • La cote de grace, Honfleur
  • Signed E Othon Friesz (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 15 1/8 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 38.4 by 46 cm

Provenance

Galerie Rolly-Michaux, Boston
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 5, 2004, lot 191
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Retrospective Othon Friesz, 1950

Literature

Robert Martin and Odile Aittouares, Emile Othon Friesz, L'oeuvre Peint, vol. l, Paris, 1995, no. 253, illustrated p. 120

Condition

Good condition. Original canvas. Surface is slightly dirty. There is some minor craquelure in the thickly applied white pigments, particularly in the center of top edge and middle of lower half of the composition. Under UV light, several specks of inpainting along lower half of left edge to address frame abrasion and one ½ inch long stroke of inpainting just above center at left edge. One nailhead-size dot near right edge in lower right quadrant. Three ½ inch long strokes near center of bottom edge. Three hairline strokes of inpainting over signature. A few other scattered pinhead-size spots fluoresce. Otherwise, fine.
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