Spencer Hodge (b.1943) "Fish Eagles " Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 65cm by 92cm...

In an excellent state of preservation, unrestored, unlined and undamaged. Reasonably thick impasto and quite delicately applied brushwork. In a good quality outer gilt plaster and wooden frame, plain with inner cream slip. 260413 There is an approx 2.5cm x 0.5cm splash of an unidentified substance on the left hand wing and tail plumage of the eagle in the closest foreground. The substance appears to be of an acidic nature as the varnish has deteriorated and it has left a residue which is chalky in appearance. 170713

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