CARL IVAR GILBERT | CHRISTMAS EVE

CARL IVAR GILBERT
1882 - 1959
CHRISTMAS EVE

signed C. IVAR GILBERT (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 ¼ by 30 ¼ inches
(71.8 by 76.8 cm)

Condition Report:
The canvas is unlined. There is frame abrasion at edges and the surface appears to be slightly dirty. There is scattered fine surface cracking, most apparent in the left register. Under UV: although some pigments fluoresce they appear to be the artist's original work.

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Provenance:
The artist

By descent to the present owner