Lot 237
  • 237

Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov
  • View of the Bund, Shanghai
  • signed and inscribed in Cyrillic Naberezhnaya v Shankhae 31 okt 54 on the reverse
  • watercolour on paper
  • 43 by 54.5cm, 17 by 21 1/2 in.

Provenance

The family of the artist

Exhibited

Moscow, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gerasimov. Vystavka proizvedenii k 100-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, 1981

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gerasimov. Vystavka proizvedenii k 100-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo, 1981, p. 32 listed

Condition

The sheet is sound. There is a small scratch to the paper in the lower left quadrant, near the man at the forefront. Pinholes are visible in the lower left corner and upper right corner. Held in a gold painted wood frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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