Property from the Estate of Jacquelyn Miller Matisse being sold to benefit charities
Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
Untitled
Important information about this lot
Price Realised USD 87,500
Estimate
USD 30,000 - USD 50,000
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Condition report
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Surface soiling is visible to the raw canvas along the turning edges. Drying cracks are to the orange passages in the lower right quadrant. Fine cracking is visible intermittently to passages of heavily applied impasto. Cracking with associated lifting is visible to the blue passage in the upper left quadrant, in the black passage in the upper right quadrant, and right of center in a gray passage. Under close inspection, a few minute pinpoint losses are visible to a few impasto peaks. A drip accretion is to the lower left quadrant. There is no apparent inpainting visible under ultraviolet light.