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Sat, Sep 13, 2014 09:00AM EDT - Sun, Sep 14, 2014 09:00AM EDT
Lot 710

Hamilton Gibbs Wild

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000

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(American, 19th century) Portrait of an Italian Woman, wearing traditional costume, signed lower right "H.G. Wild/Rome/56", oil on canvas, 39-1/4 x 29-1/4 in.; original fine gilt wood and composition frame, original stretcher and tacking edge, possible retouch under heavy retouch and grime layer, other areas of retouch at edges, crackle, flaking at edges, abrasions, mildew, canvas loose, bloom, yellowed varnish; frame with abrasions and losses to composition. Provenance: Estate of Charles Edward and Miriam Barr Mitchell, Woodlawn, Quinby, South Carolina

Condition

original stretcher and tacking edge, possible retouch under heavy retouch and grime layer, other areas of retouch at edges, crackle, flaking at edges, abrasions, mildew, canvas loose, bloom, yellowed varnish; frame with abrasions and losses to composition