Lot 89
  • 89

Camille Bombois

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Camille Bombois
  • La ferme: effet de soleil
  • Signed Bombois. Clle. (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 21 1/2 by 25 1/2 in.
  • 54.5 by 65 cm
  • Painted in 1938.

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York (from an old label on the stretcher)

Condition

The medium is oil on canvas, the canvas is not lined. The work is in very good overall condition aside from some pigment separation in the trees and darker colors, mostly scattered in the upper portion of the work. Under UV : There are several areas of inpainting along all four edges with some associated frame rubbing as well as some cracking along the left extreme edge. There are some very small scattered points of inpainting in the trees in the upper left, and there is a 2in areas of inpainting in the lower left corner, in the river. The colors are very vivid and the work presents well.
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