Manner of Antoine Berjon, Possibly circa 1900, Still Life with Shells and Coral, resting on a stone ledge. photo Sotheby's

oil on canvas, 10 1/8 by 8 1/4 in.; 25.7 by 21 cm. Est. 8,000—12,000 USD Lot Sold 16,250 USD

PROVENANCE: Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles;
By whom given to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science,1983 (Acc. FMM 82.14).

EXHIBITED: Los Angeles, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum; Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Reality and Deception, 16 October 1974 – 20 April 1975, cat. no. 8, reproduced (as by Antoine Berjon).

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Portraits of Objects, Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection of Still Life and Trompe-L'Oeil Paintings, Fresno 1984, cat. no. 3, reproduced (as by Antoine Berjon).

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