14th Nov, 2020 10:00 GMT/BST

Traditional Pictures - Online auction

 
  Lot 1108
 

1108

Alfred Seifert (1850-1901) Czechoslovakian Portrait of a beauty, head and shoulders amongst...

Alfred Seifert (1850-1901) Czechoslovakian
Portrait of a beauty, head and shoulders amongst flowering Oleander
Signed, oil on panel, 41cm by 32.5cm

See illustration

Sold for £700
Estimated at £400 - £600


 

Cleaned and revarnished. There is fairly consistent strengthening throughout the darker tones and shadows around the leaves and Oleander flowers across the background. There is evidence of infilling to old craquelure across the lady’s face and within the flesh in and around her decolletage. A minimal amount of retouching to her hand and a larger consistent patch to the right of the sprig of flowers she holds in her hand within the white garment. Two tiny losses above her left shoulder and another tiny loss within the strand of hair upon her shoulder. Paint slightly thin in places, particularly within the background which maybe the incentive for the strengthening previously described. Isolated fine stable craquelure. Panel slightly adrift of frame at upper edge. In an overall stable state of preservation.

 


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Auction: Traditional Pictures - Online auction, 14th Nov, 2020

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