PHILIP PEARLSTEIN | Two Female Models on a Navajo Rug

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Collection of Thea Westreich, Washington, D.C.
Collection of M. Anwar Kamal, Jacksonville
Christie’s, New York, 10 November 1993, Lot 147
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Milwaukee Art Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Toledo Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Philip Pearlstein: A Retrospective, April 1983 - July 1984, cat. no. 64, p. 151, illustrated in color

Karen Thomson, Ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal 2015, cat. no. 101, p. 98, illustrated in color

This work is in good condition overall. There is evidence of wear and handling to the edges including drying cracks along the turning edges. There is hairline craquelure scattered throughout the work, with an incidence of radial craquelure in the upper left corner. There are scattered brown spot accretions throughout. Under Ultraviolet inspection, areas of inpainting in the upper left corner fluoresce darkly. Crack consolidation is evident along the edge in the upper left corner and on the left edge near the molding. There is also evidence of crack consolidation scattered throughout the figures. The right edge fluoresces brightly. Framed.
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