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LOT 41*
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
(1874-1947)
'Mountains for painting 'Shambhala', 1928-29
£ 35,000 - 45,000
RUB 2,900,000 - 3,700,000
Sold for £ 137,562 (RUB 11,340,253) inc. premium
The Russian Sale
27 Nov 2019, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
reverse inscribed "N 17. 1928–1929"; paper cover with attached label inscribed with partially visible inventory number 933 (the Roerich Museum's inventory listing from 1929–1935); and with painting's title
tempera on canvas laid on board
32 x 41.8cm (12 5/8 x 16 3/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Roerich Museum, New York, 1929–1935
Louis and Nettie Horch, New York, 1935
Acquired by a private New York collector
Acquired from the estate of the above collector by present owner
Literature
Roerich Museum Catalogue, Eighth Edition, New York, 1930, listed p. 36, no. 933
Cardboard on reverse is inscribed "N 17. 1928–1929" and is in the artist's hand; the label on a paper cover with no. 933 (partially visible) is the original Roerich Museum label from 1929–1935 and is listing the painting as Mountains for painting 'Shambhala'.
We are grateful to Mr. Gvido Trepša, Executive Director of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York for his kind assistance with research and contribution to cataloguing of the present lot.