IVAN SHISHKIN (RUSSIAN 1832-1898)
Study View of Valaam Rocks
1860
oil on canvas on board
39 x 58 cm (15 3/8 x 22 7/8 in.), framed dimensions: 69 x 88 cm (27 1/8 x 34 5/8 in.)
initialed and dated in Cyrillic lower right, inscribed on verso "exhibited N.P. (Nikolai Petrovich) Sobko (art historian), 1889 and M. (Mikhail Matveyevich) Stasyulevich, 1889 (writer)"

PROVENANCE
Purchased by the current owner in Helsinki, Finland, in 1999
Bukowskis Auctions, Stockholm, Sweden, November 28, 1998, lot 208

CONDITION
Observed in frame, the painting is in good condition, scattered minuscule scuffing marks?upper left corner, a very small spot of paint loss on the tree upper right, two 1.5-inch scratches along the upper left edge and lower right corner, canvas creasing lines upper right corner and very hardly visible across and down center?lines. UV light inspection shows no signs of retouching, medium varnish.
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