Lot 117
  • 117

Henri Manguin

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henri Manguin
  • NATURE MORTE AU MAGNOLIA
  • signed Manguin (towards lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 64 by 73.5cm., 25 1/4 by 28 7/8 in.

Provenance

Madame Henri Manguin, Saint-Tropez (the artist's wife)
Galerie de Paris (Lucile Martinais-Manguin), Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1978

Exhibited

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Manguin, 1957, no. 53 (as dating from 1940)
Tokyo, Galerie Yoshii, Manguin, 1974, no. 13, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Lucile & Claude Manguin, Henri Manguin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1980, no. 1273, illustrated p. 389

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There are small two lines of retouching, the first 1cm. and the second 3.5cm., to the lower right edge. There is a line of intermittent spots of retouching to the centre of the lower edge. All retouching is visible under UV light. Apart from some light craquelure, mainly to the grapes and flowers (visible in the catalogue illustration), this work is in good condition.
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