Sale 4055
London, South Kensington
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15 November 2006
Price realised
GBP 21,600
Estimate
Alastair Morton (1910-1963) Abstract Painting 1939 oil on canvas 27 x 35½ in. (68.6 x 90.2 cm.)
Provenance
with Lucian Lefevre-Fonet, Paris. with Knoedler Gallery, New York.
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