Lot 257
  • 257

Nikolai Alekseevich Kasatkin

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Nikolai Alekseevich Kasatkin
  • portrait of an elegant lady
  • signed in Latin l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 54 by 62cm., 21 1/4 by 24 1/4 in.

Provenance

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner in the late 1920s

Condition

Original canvas, which is a little loose on the stretcher. There is a layer of surface dirt and discoloured varnish. The canvas is a little undulated along the lower edge. There is a small chip of paint loss lower left. UV light reveals a layer of opaque varnish and some brush strokes of retouching along the lower edge and to a visible patch in the lower left quadrant of the work. Held in a silver painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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