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Lot 147
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Ossip Emmanuilovich Braz

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ossip Emmanuilovich Braz
  • Portrait of the Artist’s Wife
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 19 juin 906 l.r.
  • sanguine and charcoal over pencil on paper
  • 54.5 by 42cm, 21 1/2 by 16 1/2 in.

Provenance

Sotheby’s London, Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art, 15 June 1995, lot 50

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie de la Scala, 101 Masterpieces: Russian Graphic Art 1790-1920, 1999, no.56

Literature

I.Samarine and J.Stuart, 101 Masterpieces: Russian Graphic Art 1790-1920, Galerie de la Scala, p.84, illustrated no.56

Condition

The sheet has discoloured and there is an area of adhesive staining in the centre of the lower edge. There is a small tear running horizontally from the lower right hand edge. Minor handling marks and smudges are visible. Held in a gold painted wooden frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

The offered lot is most likely a preparatory sketch for the large portrait in oil from 1907 in the collection of the Karelia Fine Arts Museum (fig.1).