Lot 107
  • 107

Ilya Nikolaevich Zankovsky

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ilya Nikolaevich Zankovsky
  • Mountains at Sunset
  • signed in Cyrillic l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 45 by 75.5cm, 17 3/4 by 29 3/4 in.

Provenance

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner
Thence by descent

Condition

Original canvas. There are faint stretcher marks in the sky and near the left edge. There is a layer of surface dirt and some lines of dirt in the top left corner. There is a very slight undulation to the canvas in the top right corner. UV light reveals no apparent signs of retouching. Held in a moulded plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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