Konstantinos Maleas

Estate of the artist
Peppy Arapakis, Athens (a gift from the artist's wife on 27 November 1933. Peppy Arapakis was the widow of Ioannis Arapakis, a Doctor and Mayor of Kallithea); thence by descent to the present owner

The board is flat and even. This work is overall in good original condition and is ready to hang. Ultraviolet light reveals a couple of tiny pinhead-sized spots of retouching in the right of the sky, and no other visible retouching. There are a couple of diagonal harline incisions left of centre in the foreground (visible in the catalogue illustration), which could be the artist's original, a very light scratch in the middle-distance in the right, and a tiny dent in the board in the sky above the hill. There is some light surface dirt, and the work's appearance could be enhanced with a surface clean if desired. Held in a black-painted frame, with gold-painted corner ornaments and a gold-painted inner accent. The colours are somewhat less saturated than in the catalogue illustration, which is otherwise accurate.
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