Lot 234
  • 234

Olga Lyudvigovna Della-Vos-Kardovskaya

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Olga Lyudvigovna Della-Vos-Kardovskaya
  • The Young Mother
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1924 l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 88.8 by 71cm, 34 1/2 by 28in.

Provenance

The family of the artist

Exhibited

New York, Grand Central Palace, The Russian Art Exhibition, 1924, No.119

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue The Russian Art Exhibition, New York, 1924, No.119

Condition

The original canvas has been strip-lined. The paint surface is fairly clean. There are lines of fairly heavy craquelure along the left hand edge of the work with further fine lines of craquelure elsewhere eg. the upper right hand quadrent. UV light reveals re-touching to the aforementione craquelure along the left hand edge and to the lower right hand corner, and there is extensive re-touching to the lower left hand corner surrounding and over part of the signature. Held in a painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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