Lot 112
  • 112

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Frederick Carl Frieseke
  • Portrait of a Lady
  • inscribed and signed To Miss E. Cox/souvenir of/F.C. Frieseke (lower right)
  • oil on panel
  • 13 3/4 by 10 1/2 inches
  • (34.9 by 26.7 cm)
  • Painted by 1919.

Provenance

Miss E. Cox (gift from the artist)
Private collection, France
Galerie Alexis Pentcheff, Marseilles, France
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Condition

This work is in good condition. The panel has been cradled and the vertical grain of the panel is visible throughout. Under UV: there is a thin vertical line of inpainting to a crack in the panel 1-2 inches from the left edge. There are a few other dots of inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

The present painting depicts Louise Ferron, a native of Giverny who served as the model for several of Frieseke's compositions.