Live Auction 1423419th Century European & Orientalist Art
Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)
Lot 98 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)

Connoisseurs in an Artist's studio

Closed13 July 2017

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Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)
Connoisseurs in an Artist's studio
with inscription 'No. 73B atelier Boldini/Emilia Boldini-Cardona/1931' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
13 ¾ x 10 ½ in. (34.9 x 26.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1884-85.

The Artist's studio sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 30 June 1936.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 June 1998, lot 193.
with Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

It has been suggested that the artist depicted at the centre of the composition with the brush in is hand is Paul-César Helleu in his studio (cfr. P. Dini and F. Dini, 2002, Vol. I, p. 189.). The unidentified elderly man on the left appears also in other works by the artist in the late 1880's.