Lot 70
  • 70

Bela Levikova

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Bela Levikova
  • flowers over the aral sea
  • signed with artist's cypher in Cyrillic and dated 79 l.l. ; further signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated 1979 on reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 140 by 109.5cm., 55 by 43in.

Provenance

Habsburg, Feldmann, Inc., New York, Soviet Contemporary Art: The Property of the Kniga Collection, Paris, 5 May 1990, Lot 60

Condition

Original canvas. There is a layer of light surface dirt and some light abrasion to the very edges of the canvas. There are a few very minor chips of paintloss in places. UV light reveals no retouching. Held in a simple black wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame,
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