Lot 596
  • 596

Nikolai Alexandrovich Tarkhov

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nikolai Alexandrovich Tarkhov
  • in the cradle
  • signed in Latin l.r.; further signed and titled in Cyrillic on the reverse

  • oil on board
  • 61 by 46cm., 24 by 18in.

Provenance

Lidie Tarkhoff, Moscow
Collection of Oscar Ghez, Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva

 

Condition

The board is very slightly bowed with pinholes to the corners. There is a layer of light surface dirt. There are a few very small areas of paint shrinkage in places, which has resulted in occasional flecks of paint-loss. Some pigments fluoresce under UV light. Held in a painted moulded plaster frame with some losses. Unexamined out of frame.
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