Will Ashton (1881 - 1963)

LE PONT NEUF, PARIS, c.1925

oil on canvas on board

35.5 x 43.0 cm
51.5 x 60.0 cm (frame)

signed lower left: WILL ASHTON
bears inscription on gallery label verso: Le Point Neuf, Paris / Will Ashton
bears inscription verso: LE PONT NEUF / PARIS / FRANCE

The Fine Art Society, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection
Mossgreen Auctions, Melbourne, 2 June 2015, lot 83
Private collection, Melbourne

An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Will Ashton, The Fine Art Society, Melbourne, 1 – 14 October 1925, cat. 5

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

This work is in very good, stable and near original condition. The work has been revarnished. There is shrinkage evident in the water in the centre of the painting and in the shadows of the arch in the bridge. Under ultraviolet inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.