16th Nov, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1075
Giovanni Battista Torriglia (1858-1937) Italian
The Toy Boat
Signed, oil on canvas, 71.5cm by 108cm
Provenance: Likely Stacy-Marks
Frost & Reed Limited
(Based on labels verso)
Private Collection, UK
Sold for £14,000
Estimated at £12,000 - £18,000
Lined. All keys present, just a little lacking in tension. Finescale brittle age craquelure and minor drying cracks in areas, and very slight stretcher bar marks. All stable and not elevated. The painting has been partially cleaned in the past, with remants of old varnish left in the darker, more vulnerable passages, and visible as ingrained dirt and yellowed varnish in the lighter areas. There has been a little minor abrasion in a few areas, for example the shoulder of the boy with the blue sash and the hair and ear of the standing woman. Slight dark dotty marks in a few areas, for example the purple apron of the seated woman. A few scattered very minor restored losses, e.g. one to the bottom right corner, and a few tiny retouchings to cracks. A little rubbing and overpaint to the bottom of the right edge. Even. not too glossy upper varnish. A few minor scuffs to the surface layers, and light surface dirt and accretions.
Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Nov, 2024
The Autumn British, European and Sporting Art Sale will include a sun-drenched work by British Impressionist painter Dorothea Sharp, two works by Louis H Grimshaw consigned from a private collection, and notable genre pieces by the likes of Giovanni Battista Torriglia and Charles Spencelayh.
A good offering of figural works include a male figure attributed to York-born artist William Etty, and 17th and 18th century portraits, and amongst the Sporting art are examples of the work of Robert Nightingale and Wright Barker.
The sale will go on view to the public from Sunday 10th November, alongside The Selected Contents of Bell Hall, Naburn, York, which will also offer a broad range of traditional and contemporary paintings.
Please note the following lots have been withdrawn from sale: 1080, 1086, 1093, 1094
Viewing
Sunday 10 November to Friday 15 November 11am-4pm and morning of the sale from 8am
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