Lot 219
  • 219

Victor Alfred Paul Vignon

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Victor Alfred Paul Vignon
  • Nature morte à l’éventail Japonais
  • Signed V. Vignon (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 12 3/4 by 16 in.
  • 32.5 by 40.5 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, San Francisco
Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above in March 1998

Exhibited

Pontoise, Musée Tavet-Delacour, Victor Vignon (1847-1909), 2002, no. 19, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Florens Deuchler, Die französischen Impressionisten und ihre Vorläufer, Baden-Baden, 1990, no. 72

Condition

Work is in excellent condition. The canvas has not been lined. The pigments are bright and fresh. The surface is richly textured and areas of impasto are well-preserved. Under UV: some original pigments fluoresce. There is a thin varnish which is slightly cracked around the center of the composition. There is a half-inch light surface scratch which has been in-painted towards the lower left corner.
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