Lot 291
  • 291

Gustave Loiseau

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustave Loiseau
  • Paysage d'hiver à Chaponval
  • Signed G. Loiseau (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas

  • 21 1/4 by 25 1/2 in.
  • 54 by 65 cm

Provenance

Durand-Ruel, Paris
Schoneman Galleries, New York

Condition

Original canvas. There is a slight warping of the canvas visible in the top-left corner and a very thin network of craquelure across the sky. Impasto in the lower half of the composition is intact. Surface of the picture is slightly dirty. Under UV light, there is a very thin line of inpainting in upper left quadrant across the sky, measuring about 4 inches, and tiny pinpointed dots of inpainting around that line. There is another tiny dot of inpainting in upper right quadrant near topmost cloud.
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