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IMPORTANT RUSSIAN ART
04 NOVEMBER 2010 | 10:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK
19
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 314,500 USD
DETAILS & CATALOGUING
Nicholas Roerich
1874 - 1947
DREAM OF THE ORIENT, 1920
signed with artist's monogram (lower left); bears various labels and inscriptions (on the reverse and the stretcher)
tempera on canvas
20 by 30 in., 51 by 76.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Louis and Nettie Horch, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
Sale: Sotheby's London, May 31, 2001, lot 107, illustrated
Acquired directly from the above sale by the present owner
EXHIBITED
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
New York, Nicholas Roerich Museum (permanent collection), 1923-1935
LITERATURE
C. Brinton, The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition, New York, 1921, no. 139
Corona Mundi International Art Center, Roerich, New York, 1924, pp. 148 and 198, illustrated
F. Grant et al., Roerich, Himalaya, A Monograph, New York, 1926, p. 43, illustrated
Roerich Museum Catalogue, New York, 1930, p. 16
Y. Matochkin, Nicholas Roerich, Volume I, Samara, 2008, p. 204, no. 237, illustrated