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And why is the sign frame or canvas with a turnover?
Can you explain?
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A stretcher can be elementarily signed in carpentry. Since orders can be many, stretchers are made in a heap and signed by the worker. Then the artist comes and he shall issue an order by surname.
Canvases are signed back mainly on those works that are sent to the exhibition. It is easier to understand, what-where-someone. And the paperwork is less. Naturally, Levitan no point was not to sign the little sketches in the back, because he never planned to send them.