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Lot 388
  • 388

Eugène Louis Boudin

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Deauville, le Bassin
  • signed E. Boudin (lower left)

  • oil on panel
  • 23.5 by 31.1cm., 9¼ by 12¼in.
  • 9 1/4 by 12 1/4 in.

Provenance

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired before 1891)
M. Muller, Paris (acquired from the above on 30th April 1926)
Muller Collection, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired in 1953)
Acquired by the present owner circa 1975

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Tresors du Musée de Caen et Boudin, 1958, no. 68

Literature

Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Paris, 1973, vol. II, no. 1409, illustrated p. 59

Condition

The panel is sound. UV examination reveals some small areas of retouching in places, mainly to the right half of the composition. There are two tiny hairline cracks to the central horizontal band of the work. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition.
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