Lot 9
  • 9

Alexandre-Emile Boiron

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexandre-Emile Boiron
  • Resting in the Fields
  • signed Boiron and dated 1888 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 56 1/4 by 75 in.
  • 143 by 191 cm.

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1888, no. 294

Condition

This painting is in unlined, original condition, with a small patch on the reverse, corresponding to the extreme lower right of the painting. Under UV, old varnish fluoresces green unevenly; inpainting fluoresces in sparse dots throughout, in a spot in the lower left, and to address craquelure in the water pitcher, the figure's extended feet and reclining figure, and there is a small area of restoration corresponding to the aforementioned patch.
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