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Lot 142
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Boris Vasilievich Bessonov

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Boris Vasilievich Bessonov
  • Winter Sunset
  • signed in Latin l.l.

  • oil on canvas
  • 54.5 by 65 cm, 21 1/2 by 25 1/2 in.

Provenance

Frost and Reed, Bristol
Acquired from the above in the 1950s
Thence by descent

Condition

Original canvas, with a patch to the centre of the reverse. There is a layer of surface dirt and the varnish has slightly discoloured. There is a very minor L-shaped line of craquelure in the lower left quadrant. UV light reveals an area of retouching corrseponding to the aforementioned patch and a few very minor areas of retouching in the sky. Held in a gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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