Lot 38
  • 38

Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld
  • Window. Artist's Studio
  • signed Boris Anisfeld and dated indistinctly 19-- (lower right); titled Window and numbered 72 and 225 (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas

  • 32 by 22 in., 81.5 by 56 cm

Provenance

ABA Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

ABA Gallery, Boris Anisfeld, New York, 2001, p. 32, illustrated
E. Lingenauber and O. Sugrobova-Roth, Boris Anisfeld 1879-1973, catalogue raisonné, Düsseldorf, 2011, no. P284

Condition

Oil on canvas. The surface is covered with a layer of slightly yellowed varnish. There is minor paint loss around the edges. Along the center of the left edge, there is a very small tear to the canvas. Under UV, pigment fluoresces in the buildings and in the chair below, but varnish prevents a conclusive analysis. Held in a black painted wood frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

We would like to thank Charles Chatfield-Taylor, the artist's grandson, and Dr. Eckart Lingenauber and Dr. Olga Sugrobova-Roth, authors of the catalogue raisonné on the artist, for providing additional information.