Lot 54
  • 54

Michel Kikoïne

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • Michel Kikoïne
  • La mulâtresse
  • Signed Kikoine and dated 62 (upper right)
  • Oil on paper laid down on canvas
  • 25 5/8 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 65.1 by 46 cm.
  • Painted in 1962.

Provenance

Sale: Palais Galliéra, Paris, March 1970, lot 157

Literature

Jean Cassou, Kikoïne, Lausanne, 1973, no. 699, illustrated p. 347

Condition

Oil on paper laid down on canvas. The sheet has been adhered to a stretched canvas. An uneven, heavy varnish has been applied and fluoresces under UV. There are a few small areas of inpaint scattered along the far edges of the work, mainly the top edge, which flouresce under UV.
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