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Lot 171
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Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld
  • Autumn Elegy
  • signed in Latin and dated 1962 l.l.; further titled in Latin and dated 1963 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 117 by 88.8cm, 46 by 35in.

Exhibited

Gillman Galleries, Chicago, 1982
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, 2001-2006 (on loan)

Literature

Dr. E.Lingenauber and Dr. Sugrobova-Roth, Boris Anisfeld Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Dusseldorf: Edition Libertars, 2011, p.100

Condition

Original canvas. There are some faint strecher marks along the top and along the bottom. The paint surface is slightly dirty. UV light reveals no apparent retouching. Held in a carved wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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