Lot 172
  • 172

Jean-Jules-Louis Cavaillès

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean-Jules-Louis Cavaillès
  • L'Opaline bleu
  • Signed J. Cavailles (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 36 1/4 by 25 1/8 in.
  • 92 by 63.7 cm

Provenance

Galerie de Paris, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1971

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. Canvas is not lined. Surface is mostly clean with a a few small spots of surface dirt near the lower edge. Faint stretcher bar marks just above the bottom edge. The horizontal line of the weave of the canvas is visible across the upper half of the composition. Under UV light there is a small spot of inpainting at the extreme upper right corner sa well as a few pindot storkes just above the center of the bottom edge addressing the afformentioned stretcher bar mark.
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