Lot 448
  • 448

Ivan Avgustovich Veltz

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ivan Avgustovich Veltz
  • Moonlit street
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1908 l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 74 by 52cm., 29 1/4 by 20 1/2 in.

Condition

Original canvas. There is a layer of light surface dirt. There are fine lines of craquelure in places. UV light reveals spots of retouching to the sky and elsewhere. Held in a gold painted plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

The offered depiction of a village street bathed in moonlight is considered to be an earlier variant of the painting Moonlight, 1912, from the collection of the Rostov Regional Museum