Lot 785 : Sold for £85 hammer

Estimate £100-£150

RUSSIAN SCHOOL - An early 20th Century watercolour still life apple and segmented orange against a tonal brown ground, unsigned, framed, 12cm x 7.5cm Provenance: Verso bears handwritten label 'Andrew Prince of Russia 1926'. It was reputedly gifted to the current vendors father in the late 1950's, who was overseeing renovation works at Hampton Court by the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. If the date to the verso is to be believed, he would have painted this as a very young child, so it maybe by her son as opposed grandson

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