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RUSSIAN ART
16 APRIL 2007 - 17 APRIL 2007 | 10:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK
374
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION, MASSACHUSETTS
Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 57,000 USD
Nicholas Roerich
1874-1947
RUSSIAN
SPITOK. LADAKH, 1925 OR 1926
signed with artist's monogram (lower left)
tempera on board
16 1/2 by 12 1/2 in.
41.9 by 31.8 cm
We would like to thank Daniel Entin, Director of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, and his colleague Gvido Trepsha for providing additional catalogue information.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Louis and Nettie Horch, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent
LITERATURE
Numéro spécial consacré à Nicolas Roerich, Revue du Vrai et du Beau (Revue des Arts), Paris, 15 September 1929, p. 7, illustrated
Roerich Museum Catalogue, 8th ed., New York, 1930, no. 679