Lot 240
  • 240

Dmitri Semenovich Stelletsky

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Dmitri Semenovich Stelletsky
  • snegurochka and mizgir
  • signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated  St. Petersburg 17 January 1912 along the top edge (covered by the mount)
  • gouache over pencil on paper
  • image size: 19 by 15cm., 7 1/2 by 6in.

Provenance

A gift of from the artist to Vladimir Eduardovich Napravnik
Thence by decent

Condition

The sheet is sound. The paper has yellowed a bit but the colours are fairly fresh. Held in a modern gold painted frame and behind glass; unexamined out of frame.
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