Lot 1017
  • 1017

Alfred Egerton Cooper

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alfred Egerton Cooper
  • Royal Ascot
  • signed l.l.: A E Cooper.; also signed, titled and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 61 by 91.5cm.; 24 by 36in.

Provenance

Phillips, London, 21 November 1995, lot 11;
Coughton Galleries, Market Harborough

Condition

Original canvas, undulates slightly. Some isolated areas of craquelure near the centre of the sky and one or two further cracks in the sky. The surface is dirty. Under ultraviolet light parts of the canvas fluoresce but these appear to be the work of the artist. Held in a gilt plaster frame.
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