Lot 30
  • 30

Philip Andreevich Maliavin

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Philip Andreevich Maliavin
  • Old Peasant
  • signed in Latin l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 73 by 60cm, 28 3/4 by 23 3/4 in.

Provenance

Sotheby's London, Russian Pictures, 19 November 2003, lot 144

Condition

Original canvas. There are isolated patches of craquelure scattered throughout. There is a horizontal crack in the paint layer above the central stretcher bar and another diagonal crack running through the sitter's forehead and hair. A small canvas repair patch is visible on the reverse and there is a corresponding area of restoration on the front of the canvas, above the signature. Inspection under UV light reveals scattered areas of restoration to the edges, in the background around the sitter's head and in his hair and jacket. held in an attractive black and gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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