A few more strokes to Lot 203.
If you look at the signature at the bottom of the left and the name of a place on the right, the obvious, that they are delivered as a clumsy, un-artistically, not to mention that the unnatural Signed in Cyrillic and Latin name.
In describing the origin of the lot stated that the current owner, he got as a result of successive transitions from a French private collection. Meanwhile, the painting was sold in 2004 at an auction in Marseilles and was sold for 10,000 euros. Provenance this lot did not exist, but it was sold with a certificate of a Gontar Sergey (Serguei M. Gontar).
Certificate SM Hontar was equipped with another picture in this auction: "Rest Soldier Villevalde, which certainly could say that it does not belong to this battle-painter's brush.
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