Lot 449
  • 449

Nikolai Egorovich Makovsky

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nikolai Egorovich Makovsky
  • street scene in Cairo
  • stamped with artist's studio stamp on the reverse and the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 53.5 by 38.5cm., 21 by 15 1/4 in.

Condition

Original canvas with two small patches visible on the reverse. There is some fine craquelure in places and a fleck on paint-loss to the top right corner. Under UV light some pigments fluoresce. Held in a gilt plaster frame and unexamined out of frame.
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