Lot 669
  • 669

Giovanni Boldini

Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Giovanni Boldini
  • Seated Woman Putting on Her Stocking
  • stamped with signature Boldini (lower right); also inscribed  nº140s at. Boldini... (on the reverse)
  • pencil on paper
  • 10 5/8 by 12 1/4 in.; 26.9 by 31.2 cm.

Provenance

Emilia Cardona Boldini, Pistoia.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie J. Charpentier, 1934, no. 106.

Literature

E. Cardona, Lo Studio di Giovanni Boldini, Rizzoli, 1937, tav. CIII.
M. Bardi, Boldini e Manet, 1943, p. 372.
V. Doria, Boldini Inedito, Grafis, 1982, p. 78.
B. Doria, I Disegni di Giovanni Boldini, Milan, 2011, no. 1832.

Condition

In overall fair condition; tear lower left edge; uneven mat and light stains; surface dirt and smudges along right edge. Verso: a tax stamp, framers remarks and an effaced sketch for figure on recto. Paper tape at edges. Uneven stains.
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