Lot 15
  • 15

Alexei Petrovich Bogoliubov

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexei Petrovich Bogoliubov
  • View of Franzensbad
  • signed in Cyrillic l.r. and inscribed Franzesbad l.l.; further bearing a 1947 Moscow exhibition label on the reverse
  • oil on canvas laid on board
  • 30 by 47.5cm, 11 3/4 by 18 1/2 in.

Provenance

Private collection, Germany
Sotheby's London, Russian Art Paintings, 12 June 2007, lot 30                 
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Possibly St Petersburg, Moscow et al., III Itinerant Exhibition, January 1874 - May 1875

Literature

G.Romanov (ed.), The Society of Itinerant Art Exhibitions, 1871-1923, An Encyclopaedia, St Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburg Orkestr, 2003, possibly listed on p.17, no.11-23 as Park v Frantsesbadene

Condition

The canvas has been laid down on board. The board has chipped in some of the corners and the tacking edges have frayed. There is a layer of surface dirt. Inspection under UV light shows two small areas of retouching to the tree to the right of the figures and some possible retouching to the left edge, as well as an opaque layer of varnish. Held in a simple silver-gilt wooden frame.
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Catalogue Note

In the late 19th century Franzensbad was one of the largest spa resorts in Europe, especially popular with the Russian nobility. According to Bogoliubov's autobiography, Zapiski moryaka-khudozhnika, he visited Franzensbad in the autumn of 1873 on his way home from Vienna, where he was tasked with overseeing the installation of the Russian pavilion at the 1873 World's Fair. On returning home, he exhibited three views of Franzensbad, possibly including the present lot, at the 3rd Itinerant Exhibition in St Petersburg and Moscow. In 1885 Bogoliubov donated House in Franzensbad and Washerwomen in Franzensbad to the Radishchev Museum in Saratov.