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LOT 40*
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
(1874-1947)
'Kanchenjunga', from the Himalayan series, 1924
£ 30,000 - 50,000
RUB 2,500,000 - 4,100,000
Sold for £ 52,562 (RUB 4,333,099) inc. premium
The Russian Sale
27 Nov 2019, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
applied with a paper label inscribed with title and number '514'; additional exhibition label, with inscribed inventory number '62' and date '1924' (verso)
tempera on canvasboard
29.8 x 40.2cm (11 7/8 x 15 7/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Roerich Museum, New York, 1924-1935
Louis and Nettie Horch, New York, 1935
Acquired by the present collectors from the above
Exhibited
San Antonio, Texas, McNay Art Institute, 1 September - 6 October 1974, no. 13
Literature
Roerich Museum Catalogue, Eighth Edition, New York, 1930, listed p. 23, no. 514
We are grateful to Mr. Gvido Trepša, Executive Director of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York for his kind assistance with research and contribution to cataloguing of the present lot.