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Lot 35
  • 35

Louis-Jules Dumoulin

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Louis-Jules Dumoulin
  • Preperation for 14 Juillet Celebrations, Place de la Bastille, Paris
  • signed Louis Dumoulin and dated 87 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 3/4 by 39 3/8 in.
  • 73 by 100 cm

Condition

This painting is unlined. The surface is clean and smooth with very fine craquellure contained to an area in the sky around the flag pole at the upper left. Under UV, three large areas of inpainting are revealed in the sky, and in dots around the perimeter due to frame abrasion, as well as through minor reinforcements to the figures in the foreground.
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