Armand Guillaumin Madame Guillaumin lisant

Property from the Meier Family Collection
Armand Guillaumin
1841 - 1927

Madame Guillaumin lisant
signed Guillaumin (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 ¼ by 15 in.
46.4 by 38.1 cm.
Executed circa 1888.

This work will be included in Volume II of the Catalogue Raisonné Guillaumin being prepared by the Comité Guillaumin with Dominique Fabiani, Jacques de la Béraudière and Stéphanie Chardeau-Botteri.

Condition Report:
The canvas is unlined. Scattered hairline craquelure, largely in the pink pigments in the lower left register. Minor paint shrinkage in the white pigment in the upper left corner. Under UV light: a small area of inpainting in the dark pigments of figure's dress; a milky varnish obscures further reading. The work is in good condition.

Provenance:
Galerie Raphaël Gerard, Paris (acquired by 1941)

Private Collection

Galerie Hopkins-Thomas-Custot, Paris

Roger and Laura Meier, Portland (acquired from the above in 2000)

Acquired from the above by the present owner