Lot 90
  • 90

Luigi Sorio

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Luigi Sorio
  • The Billiards Players
  • signed L. Sorio A.  and dated 97 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 36 3/4 by 54 3/8in.
  • 93.3 by 138.1 cm

Exhibited

Possibly, Milan, Terza Esposizione Triennale di Belle Arti, Brera, 1897, no. 134 (as Una partita al bigliardo)

 

Condition

Lined, patterned cracquelure in darkest pigments, three-inch vertical tear in lower right quadrant; under UV: inpainting to address frame abrasion along lower edge, inpainting to address 3 inch by 3 inch repaired square-shaped tear, horizontal repaired tear through through pool table on right, 3 inch diagonal line of inpainting right side of pool table, line of inpainting outlining puff sleeve of pink dress, dots and dashes of inpainting through her red dress and throughout floor.
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