Lot 881
  • 881

Cecil Kennedy

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Cecil Kennedy
  • Flowers in a Vase
  • signed Cecil Kennedy (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 23 7/8 by 20 in.
  • 60.6 by 50.8 cm

Provenance

Monaco Fine Arts, Monte Carlo (by September 1982)
Acquired from the above by the parents of the present owner

Condition

Lined. The picture surface is fresh and the colors are bright. There is a 1 1/2 inch hairline vertical crack in the leaves at lower right and one small dot of discoloration in the background to the left of the bouquet. There are two minor, stable areas of lifting and a very minor dent at lower left. Under UV: there is one small horizontal line of old inpainting in the background at lower left, and retouches widely scattered at the extreme edges, visible in current framing at upper right and lower left.
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