Lot 115
  • 115

Natalia Nesterova

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Natalia Nesterova
  • the fountain
  • signed in Cyrillic l.r.; further signed and titled in Cyrillic on reverse and dated 1984
  • oil on canvas
  • 120 by120cm., 47 1/4 by 47 1/4 in.

Provenance

Salon of Fine Art for Export, Moscow
Galerie de France, Paris
Habsburg, Feldmann, Inc., New York, Soviet Contemporary Art: The Property of the Kniga Collection, Paris, 5 May 1990, Lot 60

Exhibited

Paris, FIAC, 1987, illustrated in the catalogue p.48

Condition

There is a layer of light surface dirt and some very light abrasion in places along the very edges of the canvas. UV light reveals no retouching. Held in a simple wooden slip frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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