Lot 133
  • 133

Alexandre-Marie Colin

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexandre-Marie Colin
  • Interior of the Artist's Studio
  • signed lower right; inscribed indistinctly lower left

  • watercolor on cream wove paper (J. Whatman watermark, Turkey Mill, 1857).  Together with Carl Rauch, called Carluccio, Woman in a Doorway, Rome, signed and dated '59 lower left, watercolor on paper. 2 works.
  • the first 9 7/8 by 8 in.; the second 4 3/8 by 3 1/4 in.
  • 25.1 by 20.3 cm; 11.1 by 8.3 cm

Provenance

The first: W.M. Brady & Co., New York
Acquired from the above, 1997
The second: Ilse M. Vogel, Bangall, NY
Private Collection, Hamburg
Dr. Martin Moeller Kunsthandel, Hamburg
Acquired from the above, 1997

Exhibited

The first: Morgan 2001, no. 96
Yale 2010, no. 19

Condition

The first: In generally good condition aside from some pigment loss lower left below signature and a crease lower right. Not examined out of frame. The second: In generally good condition aside from some retouching mainly left edge & some pigment loss probably from removal of fox marks upper right. Not examined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

Please see page 122 for an additional illustration of this lot.