Lot 75
  • 75

Reginald Brill

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Reginald Brill
  • Portrait of a young woman with red hair
  • oil on canvas
  • 61 by 51cm.; 24 by 20in.

Provenance

The artist's studio and thence by descent to the present owners

Literature

Judith Bumpus, Reginald Brill, Scolar Press in association with Kingston University, 1999, pl.20, illustrated. 

 

Condition

There are various scuff marks towards the left and right edges, and above the woman's head. A light scratch (approximately 31cm) runs down the work towards the right edge. There is a fleck of paint loss in the lower right corner. Held in a pale, gilt wooden and plaster frame.
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