Lot 12
  • 12

ERNEST BIÉLER | Etude pour le Victoria-Hall, 1893

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 CHF
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ernest Biéler
  • Etude pour le Victoria-Hall, 1893
  • Signed with the artist's initials lower right; signed, dated and inscribed Dessin pour le Plafond du Victoria-Hall lower left
  • Pencil and color pencil on paper
  • 40 x 76 cm (sight size)

Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland

Condition

The work hasn't been unframed. Some paper missing in the lower right corner from the artist's time. Little scratch of circa 1 cm in the bun of the left figure. 2 small scratches of circa 5 mm in the left figure's neck and right cheek. In very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The coloured lip and green eye of the third figure could have been added by a third hand.