Petr Petrovich Sokolov
The Borki Train Disaster
Auction Closed
November 25, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Petr Petrovich Sokolov
1821 - 1899
The Borki Train Disaster
signed in Cyrillic Petr Sokolov and dated 1888 (lower right)
gouache, gold paint and pencil on paper laid on canvas
102.5 by 144.5 cm; 40¼ by 57 in.
Framed: 160 by 202 cm; 63 by 79½ in.
Executed 1888.
Sotheby's London, Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I, 6 July 2023, 136
Acquired post-sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1889
Probably St Petersburg, 1900
St Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Russian Art, 12 January - 11 June 1995
"Lettres Parisiennes", Journal de Monaco, no. 1636, 10 December 1889, mentioned in the text
Fedor Bulgakov, Nashi khudozhniki, St Petersburg, 1890 (reprinted 2002), p. 176, listed (titled Krushenie tsarskago poezda 17-go oktyabrya 1888 g.)
Olga Spitsyna, Petr Petrovich Sokolov, Moscow 1953, p. 104, listed
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