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RUSSIAN ART
22 APRIL 2009 | 10:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK
43
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 362,500 USD
Nicholas Roerich
1874-1947
RUSSIAN
MYSTERY
signed with artist's monogram and indistinctly dated (lower left); variously labeled, numbered, and inscribed (on the stretcher)
tempera on canvas
19 1/2 by 30 1/4 in.
49.5 by 77 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Louis and Nettie Horch, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, circa 1977
EXHIBITED
Stockholm, Gummesons Konsthall, Nicholas Rorich Separatutstallning, November 1918
New York, Kingor Galleries, The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition, December 1920-January 1921 (traveling exhibition, visiting the following locations among others)
Boston, Boston Art Club, February 1921
Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, March 1921
Chicago, Art Institute, April-May 1921
St. Louis, City Art Museum, July 1921
San Francisco, Museum of Art, September-October 1921
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1922
LITERATURE
Christian Brinton, The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition, New York, 1921, no. 23
CATALOGUE NOTE
According to The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition catalogue, this lot was painted in Sortavala in 1918.
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