Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin

Galerie Serret-Fauveau, Paris
Vente : Sotheby's, New York, 11 mai 2000, lot 374
Acquis lors de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel

Paris, Galerie Serret-Fauveau, Armand Guillaumin, 1957, no. 6

Georges Serret & Dominique Fabiani, Armand Guillaumin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1971, no. 672, illustré n.p.
Christopher Gray, Armand Guillaumin, Connecticut, 1972, no. 232, illustré pl. 177

The canvas is not lined; there is a layer of varnish applied to the reverse. There are intermittent brushstrokes of retouching throughout the sky, mainly towards the top edge, visible under UV light. Apart from some areas of fluorescence under UV light to the bottom edge, possibly retouching, this work is in fairly good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate although deeper and richer in the original.
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signed 'Guillaumin' (lower left), oil on canvas. Painted in 1906.