Lot 471
  • 471

Viktor Ivanovich Zarubin

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Viktor Ivanovich Zarubin
  • crowd of pilgrims
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1903 l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 107 by 125cm., 42 by 49 1/4 in.

Exhibited

St Louis, The World Fair, Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exhibition, 1903, titled A Crowd of Pilgrims
Oakland, California, Auction of Frank C.Haven's World Famed Collection of Valuable Paintings, October 1916 

Literature

Frank C. Haven's World Famed Collection of Valuable Paintings, California Historical Society, Auction Catalogue, reproduced in Robert C.Williams, Russian Art and American Money 1900-40, Harvard University Press, 1982, p.78

Condition

The canvas has been lined. There is some light surface dirt and discoloured varnish. UV light reveals areas of sweeping retouching to the sky and further spots of retouching to horizontal stretcher marks and elsewhere. Held in a gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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