Lot 772
  • 772

François Bonvin

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • François Bonvin
  • Nature morte à la pastenague et aux mulets rouges (Still Life with Sting Ray and Red Mullets)
  • signed F. Bonvin and dated 1870 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 by 22 in.; 45.7 by 55.9 cm

Provenance

Galerie Daber, Paris
Galerie André Watteau, Paris
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, March 18, 1998, lot 83
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Daber, La Joie de peindre-de Corot à Vuillard, June-July 1974, no. 11, titled N.M. Raie, grondins bouilloire en étain, legumes sur un torchon blanc

Literature

Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Bonvin raconté par lui-même, Paris, 1927, illustrated pp.77-78, fig. 54
Gabriel P. Weisberg, Bonvin, Paris, 1979, no. 141, fig. 54, illustrated pp. 97 & 223

Condition

Oil on canvas with an older lining. The picture surface is in generally good condition aside from surface dirt and dust. Under UV light, the varnish has been selectively cleaned. There are dots and dashes of retouching, as well as strengthening, throughout the work. In overall good condition and ready to hang.
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