Lot 117
  • 117

Jean Souverbie 1891-1981

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Souverbie
  • Troubadours à la Lyre
  • signed Souverbie (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 3/4 by 18 1/2 in.
  • 55.3 by 47 cm.
  • Painted circa 1928.

Provenance

Whitford Fine Art, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2003 or 2004

Exhibited

Whitford Fine Art, London, The Lure of Cubism, June-July 2001, catalogue no. 25.

Condition

Canvas lined. Craquelure pressed down on surface only visible under strong light. Under UV: thin lines and spots of inpainting in lower right quadrant, in upper right quadrant, in blue area between elbow and head of figure on the left, along left edge where frame abrasion likely occurred.
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