Lot 116
  • 116

Konstantin Alexeevich Korovin, 1861-1939

Estimate
200,000 - 280,000 GBP
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Description

  • Konstantin Alexeevich Korovin
  • still life of flowers
  • signed in Latin l.l. and dated 1922
  • oil on canvas
  • 87.5 by 66.5cm., 34½ by 26¼in.

Condition

Original canvas which has been strip lined. The picture is in a good and stable condition. The There are fine a few very fine lines of craquelure in the impasto. Examination under ultraviolet light reveals some spots of retouching scattered in places, differentiated from areas where pigment fluoresces dark by the way they cut across the composition. Held in a distressed silver leafed frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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