Lot 886
  • 886

Paul Sieffert

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Sieffert
  • Jeune fille endormie
  • signed P. Sieffert, dated 1934 and numbered 178 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 38 by 63 3/4 in.
  • 97 by 162 cm

Provenance

Private Collection (possibly acquired directly from the artist circa 1935)
Thence by descent (and sold, Sotheby's, Paris, June 24, 2009, lot 127, illustrated)
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Possibly, Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, 1934, no. 2240
Strasbourg, Galerie Aktuaryus, Exposition de Tableaux, Gravures anciennes et moderne, Vieux Chine- Tapis d'Orient, n.d. (according to a label on the reverse) 

Condition

This work is in original unlined condition. There are faint vertical stretcher bar marks with corresponding craquelure in more heavily painted areas. Under UV: no apparent issues.
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