Lot 116
  • 116

Louis Icart

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Louis Icart
  • Les Quais à Notre-Dame
  • Signed Louis Icart (lower right); signed with the artist's initials l.i. / Paris, titled Les Quais à Notre-Dame, and dated 59 (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 19 by 23 1/2 in.
  • 48.3 by 59.7 cm
  • Painted in 1959.

Provenance

Augusto and Elsa Camossa Saldahña (acquired in Paris in the 1950s)
Gift from the above to the present owner, 1975

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. In overall good condition; canvas is slack on stretcher with two small tears at the upper edge from abrasion with the stretcher and a 1/2 inch tear at the upper center in the sky. Thinly painted with canvas weave showing through and light surface dirt throughout. Signs of staining and saturation on the reverse. Under UV: No apparent inpainting visible.
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