Lot 440
  • 440

After Leonid Pasternak

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Leonid Pasternak
  • Reading by the green lamp
  • oil on canvas
  • 69 by 97cm., 27 by 38 1/4 in.

Condition

There are several patches visible on the reverse of the original canvas. The paint surface is slightly dirty and there are fine lines of craquelure throughtout. Uv light reveals spots of retouching scattered throughout. Held in a bronze painted plaster frame and unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

The offered lot is a repetition of Pasternak's famous painting held in the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.