Lot 343A
  • 343A

Moïse Kisling

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Moïse Kisling
  • MARGUERITES
  • signed Kisling (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 33 by 40.9cm., 13 by 16 1/8 in.

Provenance

Acquired by the father of the present owner in Paris in the 1930s

Literature

Jean Kisling (ed.), Kisling, 1891-1953, Landshut, 1995, vol.II, no. 64, illustrated p. 233

Condition

The paint surface is slightly dirty and there are lines of paint shrinkage to the more impasto areas of the blue background to the right of the flowers. There is a fleck of paint loss of approximately 4mm to the background in the top right quadrant. The original canvas is not lined. There are no apparent signs of retouching under UV light.
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