ISAAC ISRAELS | Rotten Row, Hyde Park

Kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman, The Hague (by 1980)
Acquired by the present owner circa 2003-04

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Impressionists and post-impressionists from The Netherlands, 1980 (as Rotten Row in London)

The artist's sheet has been partially laid on board, thus preventing inspection of the back, and is somewhat undulated. There are some scattered pin-head sized nail holes along the four framing edges. Otherwise, colours are well preserved, this work is in good overall condition and is ready to hang. Presented mounted, glazed and in a decorative gilt frame. Colours are overall less red in reality than in the catalogue illustration.
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Painted circa 1913-15.