Technique
Chelsea Houses, Stanford University
There are traces of pencil work under the paint, around the windows and door. It is very thinly painted. The brushstrokes are curiously tentative except for the grey foreground, where long squarish strokes give a curiously uneven appearance.
Conservation History
Chelsea Houses, photograph, 1957
Chelsea Houses, photograph, 1980
Chelsea Houses, Stanford University , 2015
Chelsea Houses, photograph, 2016
Early photographs show extensive fine craquelure. Different photographs give very different impressions of the painting, and this may be due to lighting, but they suggest that it has darkened. The two figures painted thinly in black on the left have become very faint.
Frame
Chelsea Houses, frame, detail
Wooden frame, not original.
Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret
