Lot 82
  • 82

Jane Peterson

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Jane Peterson
  • Entrance to Old Palace Topkapoo, Soray, Constantinople
  • signed Jane Peterson, l.l.; signed and titled on an old label affixed to the reverse
  • oil on board
  • 17 by 17 in.
  • 43.2 by 43.2 cm.
  • Painted circa 1930.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Private Collection
Sid Deutsch Art Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1976

Condition

SURFACE: there are scattered spots of flaking on the work, most of them along the upper and lower edges--where pigment has started to lift from board (an area, about 2 in square, at upper edge, right corner where paint has actually has lifted) UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: no apparent inpainting
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