Lot 19
  • 19

Henry Moret

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Lecture à la fenêtre
  • Signed Henry Moret, dated Quimper 92  (lower left)

  • Oil on canvas
  • 18 by 15 1/8 in.
  • 45.7 by 38.3 cm

Provenance

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above, 1981

Exhibited

Quimper, France, Musée Municipal des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, L'Ecole de Pont-Aven dans les Collections Publiques et Privées de Bretagne, 1978-1979, no. 66, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Overall good condition. Canvas not lined. Fine, pressed craquelure along the top edge. Under UV light: scattered inpainting, mainly around the edges.
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