Lot 305
  • 305

Paul Signac

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Signac
  • PAYSAGE CÔTIER AUX ARBRES
  • Signed with the monogram and dated 94 (lower left)
  • Watercolor, pen and ink and pencil on paper laid down on card

  • 9 1/8 by 11 7/8 in.
  • 23.2 by 30 cm

Provenance

The New Gallery (Eugène V. Thaw), New York
Benjamin Sonnenberg, Michigan (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, June 5-9, 1979, lot 1445)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Watercolors, Prints and Drawings by Paul Signac, 1954, no. 2

Literature

Peter A. Wick, Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. LII, no. 289, October,1954, no. 2, p. 70 & fig. 3, illustrated p. 66

Condition

Work is executed on cream wove paper laid down on thin card. Attached to window mat with tape along top edge. Some mat rubbing along extreme edges. 1.5 inch repaired tear extending from top right corner; 4 inch repaired tear in lower left corner; two inch repaired tear on bottom edge left of center. Surface is slightly dirty. Work is in generally good condition.
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