Lot 149
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HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR | Roses

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Fantin-Latour
  • Roses
  • Signed Fantin. and dated 86 (upper left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 16 by 14 3/4 in.
  • 40.6 by 37.5 cm
  • Painted in 1886.

Provenance

Mrs. Edwin Edwards, London (acquired directly from the artist)
Collection Muller, Paris
Alfred Daber, Paris
Newman Collection, London
Ian MacNichol, Glasgow
Herbert J. Dunsmuir, Ayrshire (acquired circa 1900)
Private Collection, Gloucestershire (by descent from the above and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 23, 2003, lot 4)
Richard Green Fine Paintings, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 2004

Exhibited

Glasgow, Ian MacNicol Gallery, Fantin Latour, 1950, no. 17

Literature

Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour 1849-1904, Paris, 1911, no. 1266, p. 131

Condition

The painting is in very good condition. The canvas is not lined. There are a few hairline craquelure in the pink pigments of the left most flower. Under UV light, some scattered strokes of old inpainting in the background of the upper right quadrant.
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Catalogue Note

This painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Fantin-Latour’s paintings and pastels by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau now in preparation.