Lot 101
  • 101

Alexander Nikolaevich Benois, 1870-1960

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexander Nikolaevich Benois
  • the great palace, peterhof
  • signed in Latin l.r. and inscribed Peterhof Grand Palais; further inscribed on reverse Alexandre Benois / L'Escalier des Marchands/ du Grand Palais de / Peterhof / refait par les russes / en 1941

  • watercolour over pencil with gouache and ink on paper
  • image size: 26 by 18cm., 10ΒΌ by 7in.

Condition

The sheet appears sound. The colour is a little yellowed. The picture is clean and ready to hang. Held in a ivory-painted plaster frame and unexamined out of frame.
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