Lot 169
  • 169

Martiros Sergeevich Saryan

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Martiros Sergeevich Saryan
  • artvin
  • signed in Cyrillic  and dated 1912 l.l.; further signed in Cyrillic and Armenian, titled in Cyrillic, dated 1912 and numbered 538 on an old backboard attached to the stretcher

  • oil on canvas
  • 36 by 48cm., 14 1/4 by 19in.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Yakov Zarobyan, First Secretary to the Communist Party of Armenia

Condition

The canavs has been lined. There is a layer of surface dirt and discoloured varnish. UV light reveals a few minor spots of retouching in places. Held in a gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame,
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