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SALE 1989
Russian Art
New York
18 April 2008
LOT 53
Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh [Roerich] (1874-1947)
Sketch for Ladoga series
Price realised
USD 103,000
Estimate
USD 70,000 - USD 90,000
signed with monogram and dated '1917' (lower right); numbered '425' (on the reverse)
pastel on paper laid down on board
9½ x 27½ in. (24 x 70 cm.)
Painted in 1917
LITERATURE
Catalogue, Roerich Museum, Roerich Museum Catalogue, 8th edition, New York, 1930, no. 425-439, Sketches to 'Ladoga' Series, 1918, (Finland).
POST-LOT TEXT
We would like to thank Gvido Trepsa, Senior Researcher at Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot.
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