Lot 54
  • 54

Follower of Frans Hals

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Frans Hals
  • Laughing boy
  • oil on panel, circular
  • Diameter: 11 1/2 in.
  • 29.2 cm.

Provenance

French & Co., New York, circa 1950
Richard H. Rush, Rye, New York, 1966
Spencer A. Samuels & Co., New York, 1967
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, January 15, 1993 (as Circle of Frans Hals)

Exhibited

South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, The Eye Listens, 1950, cat. no. 33
New York, Spencer A. Samuels & Co., New York, The Portrait ..., 1967, cat. no. 4

Literature

Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London & New York, 1974, Vol. III, p. 130, no. D5:6, illus. fig. 112

Condition

Two minor hairline splits in panel at upper right and scuffs to the varnish around the face. Under UV light: inpainting along the two splits; fine retouches to almost the entire face and the hair around the face.
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