I want to raise this subject because have a reason and the questions I have almost the same as that of
uriart. In general, all telling you, even a little Provenance
Today, bought from an elderly Jewish couple, the picture Andrei Schilder. What kind of artist they do not know, the picture hung next to paintings by European artists. Nine or ten paintings in this family, they now sell them all. But Russian artist, I found only one, this Schilder. Interestingly, the owners thought it was a foreign artist. According to them, all these pictures they passed by inheritance from their parents and they from their parents. Family itself before the war lived in Moscow and in about 1939-40 GG moved to Sochi, as
their grandfather was a renowned civil engineer and he was sent to construction sites
sanatoriums in the city of Sochi. Paintings collected exactly grandfather, they said he gave them private.
Time seized Schilder thoroughly I was not.
He hastily looked around a dozen of his pictures on the Internet, compared the signature on the catalog. Well bought, because about their "sale" has already learned various "bugs" and if not me, then someone else had bought the picture.
This oil on canvas, 90x60 cm, 1897. Canvas old craquelure, under
subframe pile of dust and dirt. Nails old, without a cap. Houses shone in the UV-rays - no lights, no restoration. Signed sort of wet. Paints petrified. I am ashamed to say, but I
the paint layer before buying brand-poprotykal
But not very much: D Rama was old with crumbling stucco, restoration, at least in Sochi, not compensable. I already had it in another frame wear.
And natural mistrust began to torment - and Schilder it?