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Lot 443
  • 443

Claude Venard

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Claude Venard
  • Connaissance des Arts
  • signed C Venard (lower right); titled on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 75 by 75cm., 29 1/2 by 29 1/2 in.

Provenance

Hanina Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Romanet Rive-Gauche, 1950
New York, Galerie Romanet Vercel, 1951

Condition

The canvas is not lined. UV examination reveals a few small areas of retouching to the upper right corner. There are some extremely fine lines of craquelure in places, which is slightly raised in some of the red pigments. There is some minor paint shrinkage to one of the grey fruits in the central bowl and a few tiny paint losses to some of the drier green pigments. Otherwise this work is in overall good condition and there is a lovely, rich impasto surface. Colours: overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue.
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