Lot 33
  • 33

Paul Elie Ranson

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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Description

  • Paul Elie Ranson
  • Deux Nymphes surprises par un cavalier
  • signed P. Ranson (lower right)
  • pastel on canvas
  • 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.

Provenance

Private collection

Literature

Brigitte Ranson Bitker & Gilles Genty, Paul Ranson 1861-1909 Catalogue raisonné Japonisme, Symbolisme, Art Nouveau, Paris, 1999, no. 637, illustrated p. 348 (uncorrect medium)

Condition

The work has been examined fully unframed. The canvas is slighlty undulating. There is a pinhole to each corner. It does not seem to be any retouching under UV light. It appears to be in very good original condition.
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