Russian Pictures

Petr Petrovich Sokolov

The Borki Train Disaster

Auction Closed

November 30, 02:40 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Petr Petrovich Sokolov

1821 - 1899

The Borki Train Disaster

signed in Cyrillic and dated 1888 l.r.

gouache, gold paint and pencil on paper laid on canvas

Canvas: 102.5 by 144.5cm, 40¼ by 57in.

Framed: 160 by 202cm, 63 by 79½in.

'Lettres Parisiennes', Journal de Monaco, no.1636, 10 December 1889, mentioned in the text

F.Bulgakov, Nashi khudozhniki, St Petersburg, 1890 (reprinted 2002), p.176 listed as Krushenie tsarskago poezda 17-go oktyabrya 1888 g.

O.Spitsyna, Petr Petrovich Sokolov, Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1953, p.104 listed