Lot 111
  • 111

Nikolai Efimovich Rachkov

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Nikolai Efimovich Rachkov
  • Mother and Child in the Wheat Field
  • signed in Cyrillic l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 50 by 39.5cm, 19 3/4 by 15 1/2 in.

Condition

Original canvas, which is a little loose on the stretcher. There is an oval steretcher mark to the canvas. The paint surface is quite dirty with a layer of discoloured varnish. There is an area of quite pronounced craquelure to the sky and abrasion to the inner frame edge. There is a horizontal scratch to the upper right of the mother's head. UV light reveals some minor spots of new retouching in places, however the presence of a fluourescing layer of varnish prevents a more conclusive examination. Held in an oval gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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