Georgy Konstantinovich Savitsky

Leningrad, 200 Years of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, 1957 

Oil on canvas. Held in a wood frame and unexamined out of frame. The canvas is covered in a layer of varnish. The horizontal stretcher mark is slightly visible through the center of canvas and there is a minor nick of paint loss near the center of the lower edge. There are very small areas of minor craquelure, but overall the work is in fine condition.
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Executed in 1948. To be sold with a 1959 calendar published in Moscow by Sovetsky khudozhnik, in which the present lot is illustrated.