Lot 118
  • 118

Jean Charlot (1898-1979)

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Charlot
  • Dance of the Malinches
  • signed and dated 26 lower right
  • 32 by 49 3/8 in.
  • (81.2 by 125.4 cm)
oil on canvas

Provenance

Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, Bethel, Connecticut

Exhibited

Cambridge, The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Exhibition of Modern Mexican Art, March 21-April 12, 1930, no. 1
Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Paintings by Jean Charlot, February 10-March 2, 1936, no. 8

Condition

The piece is created of three pieces of canvas sewn together. It is well stretched and unlined. There is craquelure throughout the work and an opaque varnish visible under ultraviolet light.
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