Lot 136
  • 136

Arnold Borisovich Lakhovsky

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Arnold Borisovich Lakhovsky
  • Provincial Market
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1914 l.r.; further inscribed and titled Ugolok bazara in Cyrillic on the stretcher
  • oil on card laid on canvas
  • 79 by 93cm, 31 by 36 1/2 in.

Provenance

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner

Exhibited

Moscow, Petrograd, XLIII Itinerant Exhibition, 1914-15

Literature

G.Romanov (Ed.), The Society of Itinerant Art Exhibitions, 1871-1923, An Encyclopedia, St Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburg Orkestr, 2003, p.414, no.139 listed as Ugolok bazara

Condition

Oil on card laid down on canvas. There is a minor spot of paint loss along the right edge. In otherwise fine condition. Under UV some small, scattered spots of pigment fluoresce but varnish prevents a conclusive analysis. Held in a simple wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

The present lot comes from the same collection as Boris Kustodiev's Bakhchisarai offered as lot 16 in the Important Russian Art Evening sale on 24 November 2014.