Lot 29
  • 29

MARIA HELENA VIEIRA DA SILVA | Le 12 août

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
  • Le 12 août
  • signed and dated 65
  • oil on canvas
  • 81 x 100 cm; 31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1965.

Provenance

Knoedler Gallery, New York
Betty Landreth, New York
Sotheby's, London, Contemporary Art - Part I, 29 June 2000, lot 27
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Vieira da Silva, recent oil paintings, 1 - 26 March 1966; catalogue, np., no. 9, illustrated

Literature

Guy Weelen & Jean-François Jaeger, Vieira da Silva Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1994, p. 405, no. 2009, illustrated

Condition

The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. The colours are fairly accurate in the printed catalogue illustration although the overall tonality is lighter and softer in the original work. Wear marks are located in each of the four corner. The canvas is slightly loose. With the exception of cracks and uplifts in the purple impasto in the left part of the canvas, this work is in very good condition. Under Ultra Violet Light inspection there is no evidence of restoration.
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