Lot 17
  • 17

Charles Atamian

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Charles Atamian
  • on the beach
  • signed Atamian / Ch_ lower right

  • oil on canvas

  • 51 by 65.5cm., 20 by 25¾in.

Provenance

Galerie G. Basmadjian, Paris
Purchased in the US by the present owner in the early 1990s 

Exhibited

Possibly: Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery & Leningrad, State Hermitage, Vystavka khudozhestvennykh proizvedenii XVI - XX vekov iz sobraniya G. Basmadzhana, 1988

Condition

Original canvas. There is frame abrasion at the extreme edges, with minor spots of retouching visible at the extreme edges under ultraviolet light addressing frame abrasion. Apart from some fine stable scattered craquelure, and some light surface dirt in the lower left corner, the work is in good original condition, and is ready to hang. Held in a simple gold and black-painted wooden frame.
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