Lot 210
  • 210

Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev
  • in the Cafe de la Rotonde
  • oil on canvas

  • 98.5 by 80cm., 38 3/4 by 31 1/2 in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the sister of the artist

Exhibited

possibly Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Twenty-sixth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, 13 October - 4 December 1927, No.256

Literature

possibly Exhibition Catalogue Twenty-sixth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, 1927, listed under No.256 In the CafĂ© Rotonde

Condition

Original canvas. There is a layer of light surface dirt. There are fine lines of craquelure in places and horizontal and vertical stretchermarks. There appears to be old waterdamege along the bottom edge and a repaired tear to the lower right corner. There are areas of paint loss along the edges and elsewhere. Held in a gold painted wooden frame. UV light reveals areas of retouching along the edges and a few flecks elsewhere. Unexamined out of frame.
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