Lot 18
  • 18

Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Konstantin Makovsky
  • Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters Reading
  • signed in Latin t.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 by 37cm, 11 by 14 1/2 in.

Condition

Original canvas. There is a light layer of surface dirt. The picture is otherwise in good condition and ready to hang. Some pigments fluoresce under UV light, which reveals a small line of retouching to the top right edge and a few minor potential spots of retouching to the dress of the left hand sitter. Held in simple gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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