Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com , an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This canvas is unlined and on its original stretcher. It has most likely been fairly recently cleaned and is ready to be hung as is. There are some retouches visible under ultraviolet light around the tree, in the tops of the wheat, on the left and right side and in a few isolated dots in the sky on the. Overall the condition is very respectable.
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