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Lot 37*
Sold for £ 81,700 (RUB 6,849,888) inc. premium
THE RUSSIAN SALE
4 Jun 2014, 14:00 BST
LONDON, NEW BOND STREET
Property from an important private collection, USA
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947)
Monhegan, Maine ('Hope')
no. 9 from the 'Ocean' series of 15 paintings completed in 1922
stretcher inscribed in Cyrillic by the artist with the title and numbered
tempera on canvas
55 1/2 x 84cm (21 5/8 x 33 1/16in).
unframed
FOOTNOTES
Provenance
Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, 1923-1935
Collection of Nettie & Louis Horch, 1935
Acquired from the above by a private American collector, mid 1970s
Thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
Frances R. Grant, et al. Roerich, Himalaya, A Monograph, Brentano's Publishers, New York, 1926, p. 204, nos. 181-195
Roerich Museum Catalogue, Eighth Edition, 1930, p. 17, no. 191
We are grateful to Mr. Gvido Trepša, Senior Researcher at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.