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Lot 438
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Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky
  • Still Life with Woodcock and Basket
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1946 t.r.; further signed in Cyrillic, dated and numbered 1442 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 69.5 by 96.5cm, 27 1/4 by 38in.
  • 70 by 96 cm

Exhibited

Moscow, 14th Exhibition, 1947
Moscow, 15th Exhibition, 1951
Moscow, 16th Exhibition, 1956
Leningrad, 17th Exhibition, 1956
Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Department of Private Collections, Unknown Konchalovsky, 2002, no.87

Literature

Konchalovsky. Khudozhestvennoe nasledie, Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1964, p.118 listed as zhi 1155
Exhibition catalogue Unknown Konchalovsky, Moscow, 2002, p.274, no.87 illustrated; p.293 listed

Condition

The canvas is strip-lined. There is a small area of slight unevenness in the canvas in the lower left area. There are some minor frame abrasions along the right edge. There is light craquelure in the lower left quadrant. There are slight surface scratches in the top right quadrant. There are a few scattered flecks of paint loss. UV light reveals small areas of retouching along the edges and scattered throughout, in particular one spot near the right top edge and the lower left quadrant. Held in a wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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