Lot 60
  • 60

Mordecai Ardon

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mordecai Ardon
  • Self-Portrait
  • Signed Mordecai (upper left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 45 1/2 by 35 in.
  • 115.6 by 88.9 cm
  • Painted circa 1934.

Provenance

Mr. Chascel Bronstein (the artist's brother)
Ms. Ellen Bronstein, Rio de Janeiro (daughter of the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Michele Vishny, Mordecai Ardon, New York, 1974, no. 15, listed p. 222

Condition

Oil on canvas, not lined. Canvas is slightly slack on the stretcher. Surface in fair condition, aside from a thin, fine web of stabilized craquelure and pigment separation visible throughout the canvas. Some small, scattered areas of loss visible in the lower right quadrant and upper right. Under UV light: inpainting associated with the craquelure and some other areas scattered and an uneven varnish visible.
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