1 GIOVANNI BOLDINI | In the Artist's Studio

Estimate:

35,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot sold:

43,750

GBP

Description

Property from a French Private Collection

GIOVANNI BOLDINI

Italian

1842 - 1931

In the Artist's Studio

oil on panel

17.5 by 27cm., 6¾ by 10½in.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Museo Archives Giovanni Boldini Macchiaioli, Pistoia.

Condition report

The panel is flat, even, and ensuring a stable support. The paint surface is even and stable. With the exception of some minor, isolated specs of cosmetic retouching in the background, this work is in very good condition and is ready to hang.

Presented in an elaborate gilt frame.

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Provenance

Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron, Paris and Geneva (Gontaut-Biron (1859-1939) was an avid collector of Old Masters and nineteenth-century art. In 1914 over three hundred works from his collection were sold at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. A portrait in black chalk of the marquis by Boldini is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (no. 1979.183))

Gérard de Soriol

Purchased from the above by the father of the present owner in 1996; thence by descent