Lot 192
  • 192

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova
  • Portrait of the Jewish philanthropist Issar Samoilovich Gurvich
  • signed in Cyrillic, inscribed Paris and dated mars 1941 in Latin l.r., further inscribed with the sitter's name in Cyrillic t.l.
  • gouache on paper
  • 61.5 by 44.5cm., 24 1/4 by 17½in.

Condition

The paper is slightly undulated, and the sheet has discoloured, especially around the inner mount edge. There is some craquelure to the sitter's forehead and the coller of his shirt. There are some light media marks and handling smudges to the edges. It is held in a gold painted wooden frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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