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Lot 293
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Filipp Andreevich Maliavin

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Filipp Andreevich Maliavin
  • Peasants carding wool
  • signed in Latin l.m.
  • pastel and coloured pencil on paper
  • 53.2 by 36.7cm, 21 by 14 1/2 in.

Provenance

Acquired by the father of the present owner directly to the artist's daughter in France in 1940

Condition

The sheet is slightly undulated and discoloured. There are handling marks in places and ware to the edges. There appears to be a small tear to the middle of the right hand edge. The colours have faded especially to the central figure. Held in a modern wooden frame, under glass.
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