ALEXANDER MIKHAILOVICH GERASIMOV | Apple Tree in Bloom

Family of the artist

Moscow, Vystavka proizvedenii Aleksandra Mikhailovicha Gerasimova k 50-letiyu tvorcheskoi deyatel'nosti, 1956
Moscow, State Historical Museum, Aleksandr Gerasimov. K 135-letiyu khudozhnika, 10 February - 14 March 2016 

Vystavka proizvedenii Aleksandra Mikhailovicha Gerasimova k 50-letiyu tvorcheskoi deyatel'nosti, Moscow, 1956, p.18 listed under works from 1953
Aleksandr Gerasimov. K 135-letiyu khudozhnika, State Historical Museum: Moscow, 2016, p.52-53 illustrated

The canvas has been lined. There is craquelure in places, including several small areas of raised craquelure with associated paint loss: a horizonal line approximately 44cm from the bottom edge and 70cm from the left edge; a vertical line approximately 70cm from the bottom edge and 50cm from the left edge; as well as other small localised areas of raised craquelure. There is a fleck of paint loss to the right edge approximately 20cm from the bottom edge. There are abrasions along the edges with some minor associated paint loss. There is a light layer of surface dirt. Inspection under UV light reveals extensive retouching to the sky, the largest of which are to the clouds in the upper left quadrant. There is a large area of retouching to the crown of the tree in the upper left, several large areas of retouching to the apple tree and a large area to the grass in the lower left. There are scattered areas of retouching elsewhere. Held in a modern wooden frame with decorative mouldings. Unexamined out of frame.
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