Lot 281
  • 281

George Chinnery

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • George Chinnery
  • Chinese Peasants cooking by a Junk
  • Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with touches of bodycolour and gum arabic, unframed

Provenance

With Agnew's, London, by 1963, by whom sold in 1963 to Walter Brandt

Condition

This watercolour has been well preserved. The colours are strong and fresh. The sheet has discoloured very slightly and there are occasional very minor foxmarks. The work has not been laid down, it is instead attached to a backing-sheet at various points verso.
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