Private collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
Sale: Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, October 11, 1995, lot 32
Private collection, Japan (acquired at the above sale)

Jean Kisling, Kisling, vol. III, Paris, 1994, no. 76, illustrated p. 380

The medium is oil on canvas. The canvas has a loose fabric liner. The work is in good overall condition. There is a varnish which has yellowed and which is beginning to peel and flake in the upper left edge and the upper right corner near the top edge. There is a network of very fine, pressed cracquelure throughout. There is some very minor frame rubbing, The edges are covered with paper tape. There is a soft halo at the back of her head of pentimenti. Under UV: there are a few very small dots of inpainting in the figure's proper left arm and torso, and a small area of apparently old inpainting just to the right of her hair, in the faint pentimenti. The colors are fresh, throught the varnish, and the work presents very well.
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