Lot 317
  • 317

Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky

Estimate
35,000 - 55,000 GBP
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Description

  • Konstantin Makovsky
  • Portrait of a Girl
  • signed in Latin t.r.
  • oil on board
  • 23.5 by 18cm, 9 1/4 by 7in.

Provenance

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner in Sweden
in the 1940s
Thence by descent

Condition

The board appears sound. There is some light surface dirt and there are very minor abrasions to the upper edge. Held in an ornate gold painted wood and plaster frame. UV light reveals patches of retouching running in a vertical line through the picture approximately 5cm from the left edge. Unexamined out of frame.
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