Lot 197
  • 197

Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev
  • three Mongolian scenes
  • all stamped with artist's Chinese stamp l.r.; further stamped on the reverse

  • watercolour on paper 
  • each 34.5 by 21cm., 13 1/2 by 8 1/4 in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the sister of the artist

Condition

The sheets are slightly discoloured, two with adhesive staining to the very corners from sellotape (now missing). The sketch of the bridge has some lines of staining to the lower middle and a small tear 5.5 cm. long. Held in matching wooden frames and under glass. Unexamined out of frames.
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