Lot 196
  • 196

Marcel Dyf 1899-1985

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Marcel Dyf
  • Young Woman of the Camargue
  • signed Dyf (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 5/8 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 55 by 46 cm.
  • painted in 1955

Condition

canvas unlined, minor soiling, tackholes at corners, pigment separation in hair with two associated flakes, under UV light no apparent inpainting
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Catalogue Note

This work was painted in a gypsy encampment above Cannes.  This work is recorded as no. 4518 in the Dyf archives, according to Madame Claudine Dyf, who has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.