Lot 274
  • 274

Semyon Faibisovich

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Semyon Faibisovich
  • Farewell
  • signed with the artist's initials in Cyrillic and dated 86; signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated 85 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 130.5 by 150.5cm, 51 1/2 by 59in.

Provenance

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Phillips de Pury & Co., London, Contemporary Art, 30 June 2008, lot 316

Exhibited

London, Haunch of Venison, Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s, 2010

 

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is deeper and richer in the original. Condition: There is light canvas draw to the top left and lower right corner. There is wear and hairline tension cracks in all four corners and intermittently along all four extreme edges and a few further minor cracks in places elsewhere. There is a fine hairline crack running vertically towards the centre of the right half of the composition and two feather cracks; one to the centre towards the lower edge and another towards the lower right hand corner of the top left quadrant. There are a few spots of loss to the surface pigment; two towards the lower right corner and one towards the top edge in the upper right quadrant. A further spot of loss at the centre left on the lower edge appears to have been retouched when examined under ultra-violet light.
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