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Lot 121
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Seascape and Mountain View: A Pair of Miniature Works
  • one signed with artist's initial l.r.
  • oil on paper and oil on wood
  • both 3 by 4cm, 1 1/4 by 1 1/2 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Odessa
J.H. Lange, Los Angeles, California, 1923
Holland Art Studios, Los Angeles, California, 1924

Condition

The seascape: the paper is sound. The Mountainscape : the sheet is backed by a small piece of board. Each of the works are slightly dirty and covered with a layer of slightly yellowed varnish. There are frame scuffs along the edges of the compositions and some minor spots of staining and craquelure. There is a small spot of possible paintloss in the center of the Mountainscape. Each held in a small gold painted wood frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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