Lot 291
  • 291

Gaston Veuvenot Leroux

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gaston Veuvenot Leroux
  • A Busy Street
  • signed Gaston Leroux and dated 98 (lower left)

  • oil on canvas
  • 22 3/4 by 33 1/2 in.
  • 57.7 by 85 cm

Provenance

Bernard Schregel
Private Collection (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 1991, lot 175, illustrated)
Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992

Exhibited

The Hague, J.C. Schüller, 1883, no. 1551
Amsterdam, Afdeeling Larensche Kunsthandlung, 1911

Condition

Unlined; under UV: varnish fluoresces, inpainting throughout the foreground and sky, a few spots of inpainting in trees on right; inpainting to small area behind the "r" in "Leroux".
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