Lot 433
  • 433

Vassyl Khmeluk

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Vassyl Khmeluk
  • Portrait of a young Girl
  • signed in Latin l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 54.5 by 46cm, 21 1/2 by 18in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the father of the present owner in the 1960s

Condition

Original canvas, which is a little loose on the stretcher. There are a few small chips to the paint surface, most visibly one flake approximately 1cm in diameter to the chest of the sitter and a smaller chip to the upper middle of the right hand edge. There is also some scuffing to the centre of the composition. UV light reveals no apparent retouching. Unframed.
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