Lot 144
  • 144

Nikolai Alexandrovich Klodt

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nikolai Alexandrovich Klodt
  • River landscape
  • signed in Cyrillic l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 62 by 111cm., 24 1/2 by 43 1/2 in.

Condition

The back of the original canvas is protected by a cardboard. The paint surface is dirty and there are stretcher marks and fine lines of craquelure. There is an area of damage to the lower centre which has been crudely restored. UV light reveals retouching to the aformentioned damage. Held in a gold painted carved wood frame and behind glass.
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