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Lot 228
  • 228

Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov
  • The Road to Tambov
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 55 l.l.; with inscribed Soviet Fine Art Fund label on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 60 by 100cm, 23 1/2 by 39 1/2 in.

Provenance

USSR Fine Art Fund sale, Germany in 1999
Acquired at the above by the previous owner

Condition

The canvas has been lined. There is ingrained dirt to some of the impasto in the sky and lines of craqulure of varying size are visible in places. UV light reveals areas of infilling to the craquelure in the centre of the composition, to the top of the sky, with some further spots of retouching to the bottom and edges of the canvas and also to the corners. An area of sweeping retouching is visible to the front section of the road and several other patches of similar 'toning in' to the sky. Held in a simple gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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