Lot 160
  • 160

Georges Braque

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Georges Braque
  • Composition avec guitare
  • Signed G Braque (lower right)
  • Gouache, pencil, brush and ink and collage on paper
  • 7 1/4 by 10 5/8 in.
  • 18.4 by 26.9 cm

Provenance

The Hanover Gallery, Ltd., London
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh
E.V. Thaw, New York
Serger Collection, New York (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, December 13, 1967, lot 35)
Samuel J. & Ethel LeFrak, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent

Condition

The collage elements are applied to a dark cream colored wove card. There is uniform time fading to both the collage elements and the supporting card. There appears to be time staining to the glue in the collage. There are surface accretions to the composition, most notably to the guitar in the center and to the upper left and upper right quadrants. The pigments are strong. The work is in good condition.
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