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Lot 143
  • 143

Vasili Nikolaevich Baksheev

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Vasili Nikolaevich Baksheev
  • River at Dawn
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1910 l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 52.5 by 63.5cm, 20 3/4 by 25in.

Exhibited

Moscow, St. Petersburg, XXXIX Itinerant Exhibition, 26 December 1910-17 April 1911, No.13 

Literature

G.Romanov (Ed.), The Society of Itinerant Fine Art Exhibitions: 1871-1923: An Encyclopaedia, St. Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburg Orkestr, 2003, p.359, no.1-13 illustrated

Condition

Original canvas. There is a layer of light surface dirt, a few fine lines of craquelure and minor flecks of paint loss in the lower right corner. UV light reveals some areas of retouching to the corners and in a few places elsewhere. Held in a moulded plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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