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Lot 254
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Sergei Petrovich Ivanov

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Sergei Petrovich Ivanov
  • Reclining Nude
  • signed in Latin and dated 1954 t.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 84 by 106cm, 33 by 41 3/4 in.

Provenance

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Atelier Serge Ivanoff, 16 October 1988, no.62

Condition

The canvas has been lined. There are fine vertical lines of craquelure and some horizontal creases. There is a layer of light surface dirt. UV light reveals thin vertical lines of retouching running throughout the canvas, retouching to the edges and smaller scattered areas of retuoching in places elsewhere. Held in a gold painted moulded wood and plaster frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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