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Lot 291
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Stepan Fedorovich Kolesnikov

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Stepan Fedorovich Kolesnikov
  • Lake in Early Spring
  • signed in Latin l.r.
  • oil on canvas laid on board
  • 58 by 79.3cm, 22 3/4 by 31 1/4 in.

Provenance

Private collection, Yugoslavia
Acquired in Greece in the 1960s by the previous owner

Condition

The canvas has been laid down on board. The surface is slightly dirty, otherwise in good condition. Some of the darker pigments in the trees show up under UV and there is a layer of fluorescing old varnish over the signature. Held in a painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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