Study for ''Petit Misere ou Mendiant au Chapeau'', signed lower right: F. Pelez, unframed oil on canvas, 23'' H x 11.5'' W, est: $6000/8000
Note: The larger version of the present work sold at Sotheby's Paris, June 21, 2012 for $80,120. Provenance: Estate, Redlands, CA; Private Collection, Redlands, CA, acquired from the above

Visual: Generally good condition. Fine craquelure in the gray pigments upper left and left center. Frame abrasion along all four edges. Blacklight: A 3.5'' line of touch-up lower left edge. Two pea-sized spots of touch-up lower center, both with corresponding patches verso. Two pea-sized spots of touch-up left center, one with corresponding patch verso. A 1'' line of touch-up lower center edge. A 1.5'' x 1'' L-shaped line of touch-up upper right corner. A 1.75'' line of touch-up upper left corner. Two pea-sized spots of touch-up lower right. Touch-up along the lower right edge. A .75'' line of touch-up lower right with corresponding patch verso. Small spots of touch-up scattered throughout.