WORTH
DRESS
ACHIEVES WORLD RECORD
$115,000
AT DOYLE NEW YORK AUCTION
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PORTRAIT OF CHARLES FREDERICK WORTH

By Emile Friant
French, 1863-1932
Signed and dated E Friant 93
Oil on canvas
Sight 89 x 49 inches (228 x129 cm)
1893
The portrait was painted when Worth was age 67. Oral history attributes ownership at one time to Gabrielle Chanel, who purportedly had it in her Paris apartment.

Sold at auction November 2003.

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