Lot 45
  • 45

Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky
  • Bluebells
  • signed in Latin l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 68.5 by 79cm, 27 by 31in.
  • Executed in 1924

Provenance

August Bauman, Lithuania, acquired from the 1925 exhibition in Riga

Exhibited

Riga, The Riga State Art Museum, III vystavka kartin akademika N.P.Bogdanova-Belskogo, 1925, no.29

Literature

N.Lapidus, Bogdanov-Belsky, Moscow: Beliy gorod, 2005, p.33 illustrated

Condition

Original canvas which is slightly buckling in the centre. There are frame abrasions along all four edges with some associated paint loss. There is a fine pattern of craquelure in the lower right. Inspection under UV light does not reveal any apparent signs of retouching. Held in a gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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