Lot 195
  • 195

Marcel Dyf

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Marcel Dyf
  • Jeune femme rousse
  • Signed Dyf (lower right); signed, titled Jeune Femme, and dated 1956 (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 21 1/2 by 18 in.
  • 54.6 by 45.7 cm

Provenance

Omell Galleries, London, 1956 (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired from the above by in 1988

Condition

Overall good condition with nice impasto. Canvas has not been lined. Small area of slight lifting and associated loss 1 inch from center of left edge. Some pigment separation in area of dark red pigment at lower edge. Faint craquelure on right side of figure's head in area of dark brown pigment. Under UV: No signs of inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

This work is recorded in the Marcel Dyf archives under no. 1757.