Lot 79
  • 79

Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev

Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev
  • Peeling Potatoes
  • signed Boris Grigoriev (lower left); labeled for exhibition, inscribed cat. no. 22, and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
  • gouache on paper
  • 15 1/2 by 20 1/2 in.
  • 39.5 by 52 cm

Provenance

David Burliuk, New York
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 17th International Exhibition of Watercolors, 1938, no. 22

Condition

Gouache on paper. The sheet is a little dirty and very slightly buckled. There are stains and minor signs of foxing noticelable to the upper region of the composition, and a mark on the man at right's back where craquelure has begun to set in. Held in a modern wood frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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