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Lot 283
  • 283

Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov
  • Russian Town under the Snow
  • signed in Latin l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 65 by 80cm, 25 1/2 by 31 1/2 in.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist in London in the 1930s by the great uncle of the present owner

Condition

Original canvas. There is a faint stretcher mark along the upper edge and a faint horizontal crease in the centre of the canvas. There is a layer of light surface dirt and very fine vertical lines of craquelure throughout. UV light reveals no apparent signs of retouching. Held in a simple painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

The label on the reverse was applied by the frame-maker who framed the painting after it was brought from London to the Netherlands in 1947.