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Lot 123
  • 123

Nikolai Semenovich Samokish

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nikolai Semenovich Samokish
  • To Victory!
  • signed in Cyrillic l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 78 by 108cm, 30 3/4 by 42 1/2 in.

Provenance

Sotheby's London, Russian Pictures, 22 May 2002, lot 43

Condition

Original canvas. There are some frame abresions and a small hole to the upper canvas edge. The reverse has a small patch in the upper right corner. UV light reveals a small area of retouching to the sky upper left, corresponding to the aforementioned patch, some minor retouching to the sky on the right, as well as next to the foot of the second horseman from the right. Held in a moulded gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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