Provenance:

Carlo Prayer, Milan

Sold: Sotheby's, Milan, June 12, 2006, Lot 54

Jean-Luc Baroni, Ltd., London, 2008, no. 32

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Framed: 19 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.
Not examined out of frame; the full sheet visible through glass and frame, set within an overmat. The drawing is in generally good overall condition apart from some crumpling of sheet at outer left edge, center, a vertical soft crease extending through the sheet at left, and some crumpling of the sheet at outer upper right edge and at upper right outside of right edge, including through part of figure at upper left. There is a tiny loss to the paper associated with a small tear at bottom edge near left corner. There are a handful of pinhead size brown spots at right, two of which are at/near outer right edge of sheet at center. There are minute foxing spots largely in upper right quadrant and some slight diffuse brownish areas at lower right and bottom right in background.

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