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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, UNITED STATES
01 DECEMBER 2015 | 10:00 AM GMT
LONDON
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
THE HIMALAYAS
Estimate
8,000 — 12,000
GBP
LOT SOLD. 16,250 GBP
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
1874-1947
THE HIMALAYAS
signed with a monogram l.l.; further inscribed in Latin and bearing Ilya Tolstoy's collection stamp on a label on the reverse
tempera over pencil on paper
22 by 29.5cm, 8 3/4 by 11 1/2 in.
READ CONDITION REPORT
PROVENANCE
The collection of Ilya Andreevich Tolstoy (1903-1970), American envoy to Tibet and member of the Explorers Club
Thence by descent to the present owner
CATALOGUE NOTE
Executed in 1928, the present work is a sketch for a work executed in tempera on panel of the same title in the collection of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York.
We would like to thank Gvido Trepša, Senior Researcher, Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, for providing additional catalogue information.
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