Lot 219
  • 219

Rainer Fetting

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rainer Fetting
  • Delacroix: Hercules
  • signed, titled and dated 1982 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 210 by 281cm.; 82 5/8 by 110 5/8 in.

Provenance

Raab Gallery, Berlin
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Milan, Studio d'Arte Cannavielo; Berlin, Galerie Silvia Menzel; Berlin, Raab Galerie, Rainer Fetting, 1983, p. 43, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the original is brighter and more vibrant. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The canvas is slightly slack. Very close inspection reveals a hairline crack towards the centre of the left half of the composition, and some drying cracks isolated to the thicker areas of brown pigment. There are two small media accretions towards the centre of the lower left quadrant. Very close inspection reveals a few hairline circular impact cracks towards the centre of the lower edge. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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