Lot 78
  • 78

Louis Charles Moeller 1855 - 1930

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Louis Charles Moeller
  • The Joke
  • signed Louis Moeller  N.A., l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 12 1/4 by 16 in.
  • 31.1 by 40.6 cm.

Provenance

Marshall Henis/ Stepping Stone Gallery, Ltd., Great Neck, New York

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: in good condition, generally; compressed craquelure; relining has compressed surface, but retention of pigment, details and colors is excellent UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: figures and table with contents appear clean; there appear to be a few spots of inpainting in darks of upper half of picture--in the space between the two seated figures--hard to see because of old varnish and dark pigments
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