Junger Mann

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€ 3 960
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05.10.2023 18:00UTC +02:00
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VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
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ID 1037783
Lot 68 | Junger Mann
DEAKIN, JOHN
1912 New Ferry/England - 1972 Brighton/England

Title: Junger Mann.
Date: 1938.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 77 x 64cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: DEAKIN TAHITI 38. As well as signed and dated verso: DEAKIN APRIL. 1938 TAHITI.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed (92 x 79cm).


Condition:
Small puncture upper left (ca. 0,3 x 0,3cm). Minimal accumulation of dust. Slight craquelure. Slight chipping of paint in the margins, especially at corners. Dent at lower right margin. Not examined out of the frame.

John Deakin was a close friend of Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud. He started out as a painter (inspired by Chaim Soutine) but became best known for his photographs. Some of Bacon's famous paintings are based on photographs by Deakin. The wonderful portrait of a boy offered here was taken in Tahiti in 1938.
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