FRENCH SCHOOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY

A seated male nude

Details

FRENCH SCHOOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY
A seated male nude
37 ¾ x 53 ½ in. (95.8 x 135.9 cm.)
oil on canvas

Provenance

with Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, as Joseph (Jose) Galvan, where acquired on 24 October 1989 by,
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (1938-1993), Paris; (†) his sale, Christie's, New York, 13 January 1995, lot 120, as Joseph Galvan.

Exhibited

London, Thos. Agnews & Sons, Master Paintings, Recent Acquisitions, 14 June-28 July 1989, no. 12 (noting that the picture was originally inscribed on the reverse of the canvas 'Joseph Galvan fecit').

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Lot Essay

When this work was exhibited in 1989 with the dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons, an attribution to Joseph (Jose) Galvan was proposed on the basis of an inscription formerly on the reverse (loc. cit.), which has since been obscured by a lining. It sold with the same attribution in 1995, when it came to market from the collection of the great ballet dancer Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev.

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