GEORGII KUZMICH LEONOV (late 19th Century)

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GEORGII KUZMICH LEONOV (late 19th Century)

Still life with Newspapers and Letters

ink, watercolour and pencil on paper
appr. 29 x 36¾in. (73.7 x 93.5cm.)

Exhibited

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, The eye deceived (Trompe L'oeil), October 1954, n. 57

Lot Essay

The picture was executed in 1891.

Apparently unsigned, the above trompe l'oeil took 324 hours for the artist to complete, to which he testifies on the left of the composition.

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