Lot 26
  • 26

Jankel Adler

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Jankel Adler
  • Seated Woman
  • signed Adler (upper right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 39 3/8 by 25 3/8 in.
  • 100 by 60 cm
  • Painted in 1928.

Provenance

Mrs. Olga Bineth, Tel Aviv
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990s

Exhibited

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Masters of Modern Art, 1982, no. 1
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jankel Adler, 1985-1986, p. 85, no. 26, illustrated in color in the exhibition catalogue

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. The work is in overall good condition. The varnish has aged and yellowed. There is craquelure throughout, especially in areas of heavy impasto. UNDER UV: Spots of inpainting near left edge and craquelure fill to the skirt area. Old varnish fluoresces green.
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