Lot 18
  • 18

Nikolai Egorovich Makovsky

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nikolai Egorovich Makovsky
  • River Landscape with Cloudy Sky
  • signed in Cyrillic l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 31 by 53.5cm, 12 1/4 by 21in.

Provenance

General Alexander Fusek (1895-1975), Czechoslovakia

Condition

Original canvas. There is fine craquelure in places as well as a few scattered paint chips, notably to the path on the far side of the bridge. There is a small scratch to the sky towards the centre of the canvas. There are frame abrasions along the edges with some associated paint loss. The surface is covered in a layer of dirt. Inspection under UV light reveals sweeping retouching to the sky along the top edge as well as scattered retouching throughout. Held in a gold painted wooded frame with plaster mouldings. Unexamined out of frame.
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