Lot 270
  • 270

Ambrose McEvoy

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ambrose McEvoy
  • Portrait of Lydia Lopokova
  • indistinctly signed, titled and inscribed on artist's label on reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 61 by 51 cm.; 24 by 20 in.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition,1928

Condition

Canvas has been cut down and restretched. A small amount of craquelure and some very minor paint flecks to the ballerina's dress, only visible on close inspection. Surface dirt throughout and would benefit from a clean. Ultraviolet light reveals some retouching by the figure's right arm.
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