FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA | LATE AFTERNOON

Property from an Important Private Collection
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA
1835 - 1886
LATE AFTERNOON

signed F.A. Silva. (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 by 30 inches
(45.8 by 76.2 cm)

Condition Report:
The work appears to be unlined and retain its original stretchers. There are select areas of surface cracking and a stretcher bar mark visible at upper center. There is a vertical 3/4-inch abrasion in the canvas at upper right. Under UV: there appear to be a isolated small spots of inpaint along the outer edges and one very minor, small spot at upper center.

Provenance:
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York

Private collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, June 2, 1983, lot 76)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale