Lot 146
  • 146

Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky, 1839-1915

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Konstantin Makovsky
  • portrait of a lady
  • signed in Cyrillic l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 61.5 by 50.5cm., 24¼ by 19¾in.

Provenance

The American Art Galleries, The Thomas H. Waggaman Sale, 9 January 1905

Literature

T. E. Kirby(Ed.),The Art Teasures Collected by Thomas E. Waggaman, Washington D.C., No.89

Condition

Original canvas. There is a layer of discoloured varnish and light surface dirt. UV light reveals areas of retouching along the edges and a spot of retouching to the chest and elesewhere. Held in an ornate plaster frame and unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

To be sold together with the original American Art Galleries sale catalogue The Art Teasures Collected by Thomas E. Waggaman from 1905 and another catalogue of the Waggaman collection.