Lot 161
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EUGÈNE LOUIS BOUDIN | Femmes en crinolines

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Eugène Louis Boudin
  • Femmes en crinolines
  • stamped E.B (lower right) and dated 1865 (upper right)
  • watercolour and pencil on paper
  • 14,1 x 19,6 cm; 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 1865.

Provenance

Léon Bourgeois, France (1980)
Private collection, Europe (and sold: Sotheby's, London, March 26, 1980, lot 113)
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)
Private collection, France
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, 1980, no. 66, illustrated in the catalogue np.

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the overmount along the lower edge. Right and left edges are slightly deckled with a few minor nicks. There is a vertical crease running across the centre of the composition and a few minor creases most predominately along the extreme edges. The sheet is light stained with a few dots of foxing notably to the upper left corner. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper of Eugène Boudin being prepared by Manuel Schmit.