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Lot 195
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Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev
  • Self-portrait
  • signed in Latin and dated 1923 with further dedication in Cyrillic l.r.
  • sanguine on paper
  • 67 by 43.5cm, 26 1/4 by 17 1/4 in.

Condition

There is a tear to the sheet just to the right of the sitter's left shoulder and the paper is smudged in places. There is stain on the sitter's thigh and some other small spots of staining in places. Held in a modern painted wooden frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame
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