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IMPORTANT SILVER, OBJECTS OF VERTU AND RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART
New York
19 October 2001
LOT 183
NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH RERIKH [ROERICH] (1874-1947)
"His Country Series": Higher than the Mountains
Price realised
USD 99,500
Estimate
USD 40,000 - USD 60,000
unsigned
tempera on canvas
29x46in. (73.5x117cm.)
painted in 1924 in Sikkim, India
Provenance
Roerich Museum, New York
Louis Horch
Baltzar E. Bolling
Then by direct descent
Literature
N. Roerich and others, Roerich Himalaya, (New York, 1926) ill. p. 21
A. Yaremenko, N.K. Roerich, (New York, 1931) ill. p. 87
Exhibited
New York, Roerich Museum, (1930) n. 466 Grand Haven, Michigan, Grand Haven Community Center,Exhibit of Paintings by Nicholas Roerich, (1969)
Lot Notes
"While in Sikkim, Roerich painted a series of works entitled "His Country" (1924), which was inspired as much by the physical grandeur of the Himalayas as by the spiritual mysteries harbored within them. Indeed, for the artist these towering peaks represented the very summit of beauty and spirituality..." J. Decter, Nicholas Roerich, (London, 1989) p. 141