Lot 22
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JACOPO VIGNALI | Study of an executioner brandishing his sword

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jacopo Vignali
  • Study of an executioner brandishing his sword
  • Red chalk, on faded blue paper;bears numbering in violet ink, upper right: 116
  • 362 by 209 mm

Provenance

Carlo Prayer (L. 2044);
Juan and Felix Bernasconi (bears their pen inscription on the verso);
sale, London, Phillips, 7 July 1999, lot 74;
sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 16 June 2009, lot 579

Condition

Hinge mounted to a modern mount. There is evidence of minor staining and surface dirt to the extremities of the sheet and some fading to the blue tone of the paper over t.mes . The red chalk media remains in fair condition throughout. Sold unframed.
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