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    • Jean-Pierre Cassigneul (b. 193
    Lot 611

    Jean-Pierre Cassigneul (b. 1935)

    Femme au collier, Portrait de Madame Huguette Empain

    Price realised

    GBP 61,250

    Estimate

    GBP 25,000 - GBP 35,000

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    Jean-Pierre Cassigneul (b. 1935)
    Femme au collier, Portrait de Madame Huguette Empain
    signed 'CASSIGNEUL.' (lower right)
    oil on canvas
    31¾ x 23½ in. (80.7 x 59.8 cm.)
    Painted in 1964

    Provenance

    Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 March 1990, lot 82.
    Acquired by the present owner in 1998.

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