Lot 370
  • 370

Anatoly Slepyshev

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Anatoly Slepyshev
  • The Return from the Hunt
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1981 (lower left); signed and titled in Cyrillic (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas
  • 39 1/4 by 80 1/4 in.
  • 99.5 by 204 cm

Condition

Oil on canvas (four separate canvas panels held in a wood black shadow frame). Surface is a bit dirty and covered with a layer of varnish. There is minor paint loss around edges. The third panel has three minor pinholes above the heads of the figures (could be original to work). In overall fine condition. Under UV no pigments fluoresce but varnish prevents a conclusive analysis. Unexamined out of frame.
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