Property from an English Private Collection BERNARD-LOUIS BORIONE (FRENCH 1865-1920) Le Cardinal guitariste signed B.Borione (lower right) oil on canvas 35.5 x 27.3 cm (14 x 10 3/4 in) PROVENANCE: Sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 November 1997, lot 92 The Cider House Galleries Ltd, Bletchingley Purchased from the above by the present owner in September 1998 This and the following lot by Borione make the Roman Catholic Church the butt of their joke. In the present work and A good read prelates in elegantly appointed private interiors indulge in reading a novel and playing a guitar, pursuits in their day that would have been deemed highly inappropriate for such eminent men of the cloth. See introduction to lot 358.