Continental School, 18th/19th CenturyTwo Oval Floral Paintings: Climbing Roses with Ruins Beyond and
Hollyhocks and Trumpet VineUnsigned.
Both oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 32 in. (100.0 x 81.0 cm), oval stretchers and frames.
Condition:
Hollyhocks with patch reinforcements, scattered minor retouch, vertical accretions/drips or some pale pigment losses in the dark blossoms on the right, fine craquelure, areas of minor varnish discoloration;
Roses with minor retouch, areas of varnish discoloration, fine craquelure, old retouch or perhaps pentimento around blossoms at c.r. edge.
Condition
Condition: Framed dimensions are 46 x 38 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
Hollyhocks frame with a handwritten label with the name "Ruben de Saavedra" in ballpoint pen. De Saavedra was an internationally famous interior designer who died in 1990.
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