Lot 675
  • 675

Attributed to Giovanni Boldini

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Giovanni Boldini
  • Portrait of Giovinetta
  • oil on canvas, oval
  • 19 1/4 by 13 1/4 in.; 48.8 by 33.6 cm.

Literature

Piero Dini and Francesca Dini, Giovanni Boldini 1842-1931, Catalogo Ragionato, Turin, 2004, vol. III, p. 636, no. 1270, illustrated p. 637.

Condition

Canvas is lined. Surface in good condition aside from two spots of discoloration, upper right edge. Under UV; thick varnish, old repaint visible in the subjects hair at right. 3 by 2 in area above proper left shoulder. Also, a few other spots scattered in background and edges.
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