SALE 1133
Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art
New York
24 October 2002
Study for the painting Thang La Pass
NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH RERIKH [ROERICH] (1874-1947)
PRICE REALIZED
$7,170
inscribed in pencil on the reverse n. 92 Thang La Pass 1928
gouache on board
8x10½in. (21x27cm)
Painted in Tibet in 1928
PROVENANCE
Roerich Museum, New York
Louis and Nettie Horch
Sponder Collection
LOT NOTES
Geographically situated in the Nagchuka Region in Central Tibet, the pass is about 16,000 feet and was crossed by the Nicholas Roerich Expedition in Central Asia on October 3rd, 1927.
We are grateful to Daniel Entin, director of the Roerich Museum in New York and Gvido Trepsa for providing information on this lot.