Lot 85
  • 85

Gustave Courbet

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustave Courbet
  • La Vague
  • signed G. Courbet (lower right); inscribed Nno 6./Collection/J.P. Mazaroz/Un Jour d'equinoxe/par G. Courbet  on the reverse
  • oil on panel
  • 17 1/4 by 23 1/2 in.
  • 43.8 by 59.6 cm

Provenance

J.P. Mazaroz Collection
Private Collector
Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

Finely patterned vertical craquelure most noticeable in the sky; under UV: pindots of inpainting in the sky, 1 ½ by 1 inch area of inpainting to the rock in the lower right corner, ½ inch horizontal line of inpainting below aforementioned inpainting, pindots of inpainting throughout the waves.
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