Lot 39
  • 39

FEDOT VASILIEVICH SYCHKOV | Au Jardin

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov
  • Au Jardin
  • signed in Latin and Cyrillic and dated 1928 l.l. and l.r.; further bearing remnants of a label from 1929 on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 65.5 by 55cm, 25¾ by 21¾in.

Provenance

Galeries Georges Petit, Paris
Acquired from the above by Jean Logan in 1929

Condition

Original canvas on original stretcher. There is a fine pattern of craquelure throughout. The surface is dirty. Some of the darker pigments on her chest and his torso fluoresce under UV light. Inspection under UV light shows strengthening to the Latin signature and the date in the lower left. Held in a decorative gold-painted frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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