Cyril Fradan

Cyril Fradan (1928-1997) - Framed 1955 Gouache, Tub Time

1955

Unsigned. On canvas on stretchers.

A striking nude study in vibrant gouache, showing a seated female nude. The painting is unsigned and presented in a simple black frame with card mount. On wove.

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Italian School, 16th Century Provenance: Private Collection, New York This intriguing drawing is a study by an anonymous 16th-century Italian artist after a vignette in Michelangelo’s fresco of The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. The altar wall of the Sistine Chapel was already richly decorated when Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint his Last Judgment...

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