Lot 219
  • 219

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
  • Seated Boy
  • charcoal and watercolour on paper
  • image size: 33 by 22.5cm, 13 by 9in.

Provenance

V.Smolnikova, Moscow
Valery Dudakov, Moscow
Sotheby's London, Russian Pictures and Works of Art, 15 December 1994, Lot 138

Literature

Yu. Rusakov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, St. Petersburg, 1986, p.294
V.Kostin, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik,  1986, p.2

Condition

The sheet has discoloured , especially at the edges of the inner mount edge. There are some spots of foxing in places. The colours have faded a little. Held in a gold painted wooden frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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