Lot 27
  • 27

Rafael Zabaleta

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rafael Zabaleta
  • El Gallinero (Hens and Cockerels)
  • signed R. Zabaleta lower centre
  • oil on canvas
  • 65 by 81 cm., 25½ by 32in.

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York
Ambassador Arthur H. Dean (1898-1987, lawyer, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Korea)
Purchased by the present owner in the U.S.A. in 2008

Exhibited

Bilbao, Museo del Parque, 1955, no. 10

Literature

Maria F. Guzmán Pérez, Catalogación de la producción zabaletiana, Granada, 1983, p. 779, no. 337
Maria F. Guzmán Pérez, La Pintura de Rafael Zabaleta, Granada, 1985, p. 395, no. 340

Condition

The canvas has not been lined. Ultra-violet light reveals a couple of possible minor spots of retouching in the lower-right corner, apart from which this work is in good original original condition and ready to hang. Presented in a decorative gilt frame with a silver-gilt inner slip.
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