Lot 138
  • 138

Françoise Gilot

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Françoise Gilot
  • Venetian Vase with Virginia Creeper
  • Signed F. Gilot. (lower center); signed again and dated 1942 (on the stretcher)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 21 3/4 by 15 in.
  • 55.2 by 38.1 cm
  • Painted in 1942.

Provenance

The Elkon Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in October 1998

Exhibited

New York, The Elkon Gallery, Inc., Françoise Gilot: The Early Years, 1940-55, 1998, illustrated in the catalogue plate III

Literature

Françoise Gilot, Françoise Gilot Monograph, 1940-2000, Lausanne, 2000, illustrated p. 96

Condition

Oil on unlined canvas. The picture surface is in generally good condition. There are some areas of duller pigment, scattered throughout the background and along the left side of the plate, that fluoresce under UV light, though these appear to be later unvarnished additions by the artist.
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