Lot 31
  • 31

François Bonvin

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • François Bonvin
  • Femme tricotant
  • signed F. Bonvin, dated 1881, and dedicated A Fanny Broussois (upper right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 3/4 by 15 1/2 in.
  • 52.7 by 39.3 cm

Provenance

Staerke Collection, Holland
Sale: Christie's, London, February 20, 1976, lot 138
H. Shickman Gallery, New York
Acquired in 1990

Literature

Gabriel P. Weisberg, Bonvin, trans. André Watteau, Milan, 1979, p. 199, no. 76, illustrated

Condition

This painting has not been lined. Under UV, heavy varnish fluoresces green, as do scattered dots and dashes of inpainting and three dime-sized brushed spots along the right side.
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