Lot 557
  • 557

Florent Willems

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Florent Willems
  • A Sideways Glance
  • signed F. Willems (lower left)
  • oil on panel
  • 29 by 22 7/8 in.; 73.8 by 58 cm

Provenance

Goupil Gallery, New York (according to a label on the reverse)
Private collection, Chicago
Acquired from the above circa 1974

Condition

Oil on panel. The picture surface is in generally good condition with a shiny varnish. There is an area of dull varnish in the mirror at upper left. Frame abrasions at the extreme edges. Under UV light, the varnish is difficult to read through. There are older, lightly fluorescing inpaints visible around the mirror and the curtain at left as well as scattered throughout the figures clothing. In overall good condition.
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