About this lot

Description

Portrait of a man, half-length, in black signed lower left 'B Hudson Pt' oil on canvas, unframed 68.5 x 55.5 cm

Provenance: Possibly Sotheby's, London, 28th May 1998, lot 403

Condition report: 540HT stencil to the stretcher Oil on canvas which is unlined. The canvas tension is slightly slack but in plane. There are numerous small losses around the edges of the painting and a few scattered losses in the central area and sitter's face. The paint layers have suffered from some wear and abrasion, notably the sitter's eyebrows. There is a dark scumble in the upper half of the painting with possible attempts to remove the layer, it is unclear if this is part of the original or not.

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