Lot 157
  • 157

Peter Saul

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Peter Saul
  • Automobile
  • signed; signed on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 89 x 129 cm; 35 1/16 x 50 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1959.

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris

Exhibited

Paris, Xème Salon de Peinture, 1959

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the overall tonality is slightly brighter in the original work. The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. There are faint wears to corners and edges, and few hairline cracks scattered on the surface, visible under close inspection. Under Ultra Violet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. This work is in very good condition.
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