Lot 80
  • 80

Gustave Doré

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustave Doré
  • A Gypsy Dancing the Zorongo
  • signed Gve Doré (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 82 7/8 by 51 in.
  • 210.5 by 129.5 cm

Provenance

Sale: Stockholms Auktionsverk, Stockholm, May 18, 1999, lot 1314, illustrated

Condition

Lined. Scattered craquelure visible throughout. Under UV: Strokes of inpainting to left woman's face, arm, hair, and bodice with additional areas of inpainting surrounding her lower skirt and feet, the dog, the costume of the woman at right and in the lower left corner.
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