Lot 307
  • 307

Lucien Marchais

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lucien Marchais
  • Canotiers sur la Seine
  • signed and dated L Marchais '91 lower right
  • oil on canvas
  • 81.3 by 115.6cm., 32 by 45.5in.

Exhibited

Possibly, Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, 1893, no. 1193 (as La Seine à Asnières)

Condition

The canvas has been relined. There are a few flecks of scattered retouching visible under ultraviolet light. Apart from some minor paint loss notably to a small area above the dock and two pinhead spots to the lower edge, and some scattered craquelure, this work is in overall good condition and ready to hang. Held in a decorative, gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame.
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