Lot 166
  • 166

Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev
  • The Conversation, Capri
  • signed in Latin and dated 1933 l.r.
  • tempera on canvas
  • 61 by 44cm., 24 by 17¼in.

Provenance

Gropper Art Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Exhibited

Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by Alexandre Iacovleff, 1938, No.70
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Alexandre Iacovleff, 11 April - April 1939, No.10
Cambridge, MA, Gropper Art Gallery,  Alexander Iacovleff. An Exhibition of Fifty Drawings and Paintings, 1972, No.39, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

The canvas is slightly undulated. The paint surface is slightly dirty with a few fine lines of the craquelure in places along the edges. UV light reveals no apparent retouching. Held in a gold-painted wooden frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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