Guy Pieters Galleries, Knokke-Heist
Private Collection, Belgium
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly softer in the original, with the turquoise of the symbol tending more to sky blue, the orange-pink of the passage left of the central vertical axis more to fuchsia, the salmon striped card in the lower left corner more to rose pink and the background colour more to creamy-white. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is a very slight undulation to the composition, most notably to the right edge of the work. There are a number of scattered irregularities and specks of media accretion to the work's surface, all of which appear to be inherent to the artist's working process.
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