Lot 250
  • 250

Marie Laurencin

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Marie Laurencin
  • Portrait de femme
  • Signed Marie Laurencin and dated 1938 (upper right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 18 1/8 by 15 in.
  • 46 by 38.1 cm

Provenance

Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, before 1942
Private Collection (sold: Christie's, New York, May 9, 1991, lot 245)
Thereafter restituted to the Rosenberg heirs

Exhibited

New York, World's Fair, French Pavilion, Contemporary French Art, 1939, no. 87

Literature

Charlotte Gere, Marie Laurencin, New York, 1977, illustrated p. 83 (titled Julia)
Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Tokyo, 1986, no. 715, illustrated p. 297

Condition

The canvas is not lined. Surface is clean. There are a few thin stable cracks mostly in the lower-right quadrant. Under UV light: numerous pigments fluoresce, however these appear to be original. No inpainting is apparent. The work is in very good condition.
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