Lot 4: ADOLFO FERAGUTTI-VISCONTI | Young women in an interior

Oil on panel

28,6 x 41,8 cm ; 12  7/8 by 16  7/16 in.

Oil on panel

This work is in good condition. The artist's panel is uncradled, flat, even and ensuring a stable support. As just visible in the catalogue illustration, there are some localised small areas of fine drying craquelure in the blue pigments near the right edge of the composition, and in the white pigments in the girl's back. Ultra-violet light reveals notably a horizontal band of retouching near the centre of the lower edge, a second one parallel to this near the upper edge, and some small scattered spots. The colours are less yellow overall in reality than in the catalogue illustration, and subtler.
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