Leon Vilaincour, A Life 1984-5
© Leon Vilaincour
Technique and condition
The work consists of two separate paintings which are hung seven inches apart. Each painting was executed on a single piece of coarse linen fabric which is attached to a five-membered stretcher with ferrous tacks along its rear edges. Although both the stretchers were originally of the expandable type, they have been made rigid by the addition of two reinforcing battens which run horizontally and equidistant from the middle and outer stretcher bars. The canvas was prepared with one or two layers of a white oil-based primer over the stretched face of the canvas, which was probably preceeded by an initial application of animal glue size… (read more)
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