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Lot 235
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Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov
  • Boulevard de Clichy
  • bearing remnants of Soviet exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher and inscribed N372 on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 49 by 63cm, 19 1/4 by 24 3/4 in.

Provenance

The family of the artist

Literature

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gerasimov Centenary Exhibition catalogue, Moscow: Izobrazitelnoe iskusstvo, 1981, p.14, listed under works executed in 1934

Condition

The canvas has been strip lined. There is minor wear to the edges, some flecks of paint loss to the lower left corner with a further few in places elsewhere. On the reverse of the canvas there are two small areas of repair to the upper right quadrant. UV light reveals small areas of retouching to the sky, a smaller area to the foliage above the car, with further lines of infilling to the lower edge of the canvas. Held in a gold painted frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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