Lot 171
  • 171

Nicolas Tarkhoff

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nicolas Tarkhoff
  • Fireworks in Nice
  • signed in Latin l.r.
  • oil on paper laid down on canvas
  • 47 by 36cm, 18 3/4 by 14 1/4 in.

Provenance

Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1989

Exhibited

San Francisco, Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, Nicolas Tarkhoff, A Retrospective Exhibition, September - November 1989, no.5 Feux d'artifice, 1905

Condition

On paper laid down on wax-lined canvas. The sheet and canvas are a bit undulated and covered with an uneven layer of translucent varnish. There is a small spot where the sheet has been torn in the upper left of the fireworks. A bit of pigment appears to have been lost within the frame at the lower left corner. Held in a gold-painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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