25 March 2023
Female Portraits, two works, each signed, one dated 1988 and the other 1989.
Each gouache on cardboard, measuring 50 by 39 cm.
2,000-3,000 GBP
Provenance: Collection of a writer Natalia Shmelkova (1942–2019).
Acquired from the above by the previous owner in the 1990s.
Thence by descent.
Private collection, Germany.
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