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RUSSIAN PAINTINGS
29 MAY 2012 | 10:30 AM BST
LONDON
180
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, USA AND ITALY
Estimate 18,000 — 22,000 GBP
LOT SOLD. 63,650 GBP
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
1874-1947
THE VOLGA
signed in Cyrillic l.l. and in Latin l.r.
mixed media on paper mounted on board
12 by 23 cm, 4 1/2 by 9in.
READ CONDITION REPORTSALEROOM NOTICE
PROVENANCE
Yakov Evseevich Rubenstein, Russia
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, circa 1981
EXHIBITED
Yaroslav, Yaroslav Fine Arts Museum, July-August 1978
CATALOGUE NOTE
Executed circa 1899, the offered work is believed to be a sketch for Volkhov, formerly in the collection of Eduard Napravnik, which is illustrated in Baltrushaitis' monograph on Roerich published in 1916, p.20.