Lot 114
  • 114

Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Konstantin Makovsky
  • Portrait of a Girl
  • signed in Latin t.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 34.3 by 28.5cm, 13 1/2 by 11 1/4 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Moscow
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1992

Condition

Original canvas. The paint surface is dirty and would benefit from a clean. There are light abrasions around the edges. UV light reveals small areas of retouching to the right and left edges around the face and the nose of the sitter, some minor infilling in places elsewhere. Some pigments fluoresce under UV light. Held in a gold painted frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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