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SALE 7167
RUSSIAN PICTURES
London
30 November 2005
LOT 194
Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh [Roerich] (1874-1947)
Décor for Tristan & Isolde; Act III, 'Tristan's castle'
Price realised
GBP 153,600
Estimate
GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000
signed with the artist's monogram (lower left) and inscribed 'MD' (on the reverse)
tempera on canvas
21 x 31 in. (53.3 x 78.7 cm.)
Provenance
Louis Horch, New York.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue; The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition, New York, 1924, illustrated.
N. Roerich et. al., Roerich. Himalaya., New York, 1926. p. 198. Exhibition catalogue; La Revue du Vrai et du Beau, Paris, 1929, p. 19, illustrated.
A. V. Yaremenko, Roerich, New York, 1931, p. 37.
E. Iakovleva, Teatral'no-dekoratsionnoe iskusstva, The Czech Republic, 1996, p. 214, no. 283, illustrated.
Lot Notes
An opera in three acts by Wagner, Tristan & Isolde was composed between 1857-59 and based on the characters from Arthurian legend. Roerich produced stage designs for the 1922 unrealised production by the Chicago Opera Company.
We are grateful to Gvido Trepsa and The Roerich Museum, New York, for their assistance with the cataloguing of the present lot.
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