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Lot 281
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Filipp Andreevich Maliavin

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Filipp Andreevich Maliavin
  • Troika in the Snow
  • signed in Latin l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 50.7 by 65.4cm, 20 by 25 3/4 in.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the Czech architect Antonin Engel in 1933
Thence by descent

Condition

Original canvas, which appears to be in overall good condition and ready to hang. UV light reveals two small areas of retouching to the left of the horse on the left hand side. Held in a white painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

Antonin Engel (1879-1958) was was the architect of the Myslbek exhibition centre in Prague where Maliavin held his 1933 solo show.