Lot 331
  • 331

Jan Mikhailovich Rosenthal

Estimate
65,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jan Mikhailovich Rosenthal
  • portrait of the artist's children
  • signed in Latin and dated 1906 l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 85 by 99.25 cm., 33 1/2 by 39in.

Condition

The board is slightly bowed and worn to the edges and corners. There is paint loss along the edges . The paint surface is a little dirty and there is a layer of discoloured varnish. UV light reveals some small spots of retouching in places, mostly to the edges with some flecks to the sitters faces (and also the boy's bow-tie) and elsewhere. Held in a gold painted moulded plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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