WINIFRED NICHOLSON | PENSTEMONS

WINIFRED NICHOLSON
1893-1981
PENSTEMONS

signed and titled on the canvas overlap
oil on canvas
61 by 61cm.; 23¾ by 24in.
Executed circa 1927.

Condition Report:
The canvas is original. The canvas undulates very slightly in places. There is light surface dirt to the work in places. This excepting the work appears to be in excellent overall condition.

Inspection under ultra violet light reveals a number of very sensitively executed spot retouchings and some further retouched abrasions at the extreme edges.

The work is held within a painted wooden frame.

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Provenance:
Dame Marie Tempest (Mrs Graham Brown), 1942

Beaux Arts, London

Private Collection, U.K.

Acquired by the present owner in January 2007