Lot 10
  • 10

KARL WILHELM BARDOU | Portrait of a Young Officer

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Karl Wilhelm Bardou
  • Portrait of a Young Officer
  • pastel on canvas
  • 30 by 23.5cm, 11 3/4 by 9 1/4 in.

Provenance

Olga Iosifovna Rybakova, Leningrad
Acquired from the above by the parents of the present in the 1960s

Condition

The canvas was previously mounted to a stretcher and is coming apart in places where it was previously folded at the tacking edges. There are losses to all four corners and abrasions along the edges. There are scattered patches of mould to the corners and along the edges. Some scratches are visible in places, most noticeably to the left of the upper edge. Held in a wooden frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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