Lot 23
  • 23

Bernard Boutet de Monvel

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Bernard Boutet de Monvel
  • Les ânes
  • Signed Bernard B de Monvel and dated 1906 (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 31 1/2 by 81 in.
  • 80 by 205.7 cm
  • Painted in 1906.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 28, 1986, lot 125
Private collection
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 6, 1998, lot 231
Private collection, New York

Exhibited

Dresden, Kunstsalon Emil Richter, no. 2238

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from slightly slack on stretcher, scattered cracking, mostly in the center, thinly painted in areas with canvas weave visible. UNDER UV: A few dots of inpainting at center.
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