Lot 96
  • 96

Franz Xaver Kosler

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

Description

  • Franz Xaver Kosler
  • An Oriental beauty
  • signed F Kosler lower right
  • oil on canvas
  • 63 by 45cm., 24¾ by 17¾in.

Provenance

Sale: Christie's, New York, 12 April 2007, lot 33
Purchased by the present owner at the above sale

Condition

Original canvas. There are a few very minor scattered spots of retouching visible under ultraviolet light, a light stretcher mark, some yellowing of the varnish, and hairline craquelure in the white pigment (visible in the catalogue illustration). Held in an elaborate gold-painted frame.
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