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Vilmos Huszár

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Description

  • Vilmos Huszár
  • Figure de femme
  • Signed V. Huszar (lower right)
  • Oil on board in painted artist's frame
  • 20 1/2 by 16 1/2 in.
  • 52.1 by 41.9 cm

Provenance

Galerie Tarica, Paris
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired in 1964)
Private Collection, New York

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Tarica, no. 34
La Jolla Museum of Art & The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Seven Decades of Twentieth Century Art from the Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Sidney Janis Gallery Collection, 1980
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden; Amsterdam, Stedlijk Museum & Otterloo, Rijksmuseum Kröller Muller, De Stijl, 1982, no. 125
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Utopian Visions in Modern Art: Dreams and Nightmares, 1983-84, no. 61

Condition

This work is in excellent condition and in the original painted artist's frame. The frame shows natural wear and surface dirt, but otherwise surface is very clean. The work is executed in several built up layers which fluoresce differently from each other but there is not evidence of retouching under UV light.
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