Lot 467
  • 467

Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Konstantin Makovsky
  • portrait of an elegant gentleman
  • signed in Latin and dated 1914 l.m.
  • oil on canvas
  • 104 by 82cm., 41 by 32 1/4 in.

Condition

The canvas has been lined. There is a layer of discoloured varnish and light surface dirt. UV light reveals a layer of opaque varnish and suggestions of old retouching to the sitter's forehead and elsewhere. Held in a wood frame and unexamined out of frame.
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