Lot 12
  • 12

Frank Dobson

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Frank Dobson
  • Female Nude
  • signed and dated 27
  • pencil and watercolour
  • 34 by 51cm.; 13½ by 20in.

Condition

The work is executed on wove paper that appears to have been attached to the backboard by all four edges. There are artist's pinholes along the upper and lower edges, although these would have been made during the creation of the work. There is a restored tear (approximately 6cm in length) running vertically from the right side of the upper edge. Under glass and held in a gilt wood and plaster frame with white inlay. unexamined out of its frame.
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