Lot 448
  • 448

Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky
  • still life of game
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1954 l.r; further signed in Cyrillic dated 1954 and numbered1647 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 89.5 by 111.5cm., 35 1/4 by 44in.

Condition

The original canvas is slightly loose on the stretcher. There is some light surface dirt and fine lines of craquelure especially to the centre. There are chips of paintloss to the middle of the top edge and elsewhere. Uv light reveals areas of old restoration to the top right hand corner, top and lower edges and further spots elsewhere. Held in a simple painted woood frame and unexamined out of the frame.
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