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Lot 289
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Filipp Andreevich Maliavin

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Filipp Andreevich Maliavin
  • A group of six female portraits
  • signed variously in Latin, one inscribed in Latin on the reverse
  • crayon over pencil on paper
  • largest: 49 by 63.8cm, 19 1/4 by 25 1/4 in.; smallest: 26.4 by 30cm, 10 1/4 by 11 3/4 in.

Condition

The largest sheet depicting a lady in a full skirt leaning on a table, has been laid down onto another sheet and there is a repaired tear approximately 12cm long to the top right edge and repaired tears in the lower left corner. The sheets are all discoloured and there is a layer of surface dirt, wear and minor tears to the edges, creasing to the corners and in places elsewhere. The sheet signed in the lower left corner is undulated and has light vertical creases running throughout. There are some losses to the edge of the sheet of the lady depicted side-on in a fur. Unframed.
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