GENE DAVIS | Legato in Red

Poindexter Gallery, New York
Estate of Gene Baro, Bennington, Vermont  
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1984

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is slightly slack on the stretcher. Under close inspection, there is wear and handling to extreme outer edges of the canvas. Also under close inspection, there are rub marks running along the lower horizontal edge from previous stretching of the canvas. Under very close inspection, there are scattered pin points accretions visible. Under further very close inspection and raking light, there are scattered scuffs which fluoresce lightly when examined under Ultraviolet light, most notably in the center of the third blue strip from the left. Under extremely close inspection and in raking light, there are scattered areas that have a slightly distant texture from the rest of the canvas, that have benefited from light retouching. Under ultraviolet light the aforementioned areas do not fluoresce. Unframed.
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