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Re: Help with oil painting please.
« Reply #30 on: June 19, 2013, 01:57:03 am »
Would still be nice to see it !

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Re: Help with oil painting please.
« Reply #31 on: June 19, 2013, 02:07:55 am »
Ok Ipcress your wish is my command lol. I post it on a new thread.
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Re: Help with oil painting please.
« Reply #32 on: June 19, 2013, 04:57:39 am »
Invisible ink? how could anyone see that? am i missing something?



Can you see Boulogne sur seine on the label? This town changed its name in 1924!



 Make sense yet? - Ok it has now been established that the town may still have been known locally by its old name at a later date. So it isn't definitive proof that the painting is older. You may well be right with the dates you have given. 40's 50's 60's. I am giving up now as I have gratefully received a lot of useful information from you all.



I may hand the picture to a Parisian friend to get it appraised, will let you know the outcome if I do. Would have been so much easier if mum retired somewhere in uk. At least I can make myself understood here and we have some great auction houses but I'm useless at French and I know little about French art history.

Thanks once again to everyone who participated. Moving on to next item now. Gorgeous piece of R Lalique glass. I don't need help with that just got to work out where is best to sell it.

are you missing something.....No... its KC....she,was thinking 1924 was in black & white....and not in the cryptic clue......but i think the penny will have dropped by now.... ;D
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