LÉON SPILLIAERT | Branchages en hiver autour d'un étang

Private collection, Sweden
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Executed on brown cardboard. The cardboard is convex. There are thin lines of craquelure and tiny paint losses in places, most predominately in the green pigment and a further horizontal thin line of craquelure to the centre of the right edge. There is some frame rubbing along the extreme edges, with associated paint losses. This work is in overall good condition.
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This work is the fragment of a larger composition considered as unfinished by the artist.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné in preparation by Dr. Anne Adriaens-Pannier.