Lot 74
  • 74

Juan Jiménez y Martín

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Juan Jiménez y Martín
  • The Serenade
  • signed and inscribed Jimenez-Martín / Roma lower left
  • watercolour on paper
  • 53.5 by 38.5cm., 21 by 15¼in.

Provenance

Sale: Dargate Auction Gallery, Pittsburgh, 20 July 1996, lot 619
Sale: Christie's, New York, 25 October 2000, lot 140
Sale: Durán, Madrid, 24 February 2004, lot 228

Condition

Unexamined out of frame and under glass, apart from some light yellowing and a crease to the upper right corner, the sheet is in very good condition. This work is in overall very good condition, with fresh colours and fine detail, and ready to hang. Held in a decorative, gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame with losses to the corners, under glass.
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