Lot 40
  • 40

Marie Laurencin

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Marie Laurencin
  • TĂȘte de jeune fille
  • Signed Marie Laurencin (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 13 3/4 by 10 3/4 in.; 35 by 27.3 cm
  • Painted circa 1950.

Provenance

Galerie M. Bénézit, Paris
Private Collection, Massachusetts (acquired from the above in November 1956)
Private Collection, California

Condition

Oil on canvas, unlined. Surface in generally good condition, aside from minor pigment separation in the white flower at upper right, the white flower below her proper right ear, and in the green above her propery right ear. Shiny varnish. Under UV light; no apparent inpainting visible.
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