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Richard Karlovich Zommer, 1866-1939
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
- Richard Karlovich Zommer
- the Shir-Dor Mosque, Samarkand
- signed in Cyrillic l.r. and dated 1907
- oil on canvas
- 59 by 97.5cm., 23¼ by 38½in.
Catalogue Note
The impressive Shir-Dor, which translates as ‘building with lions’, is counted amongst the most lavish Madrassas to have been built in the seventeenth century. Renowned for its elaborate tiled decoration and imposing size, it has inspired other Russian artists who travelled to Central Asia, and appears in a number of important pictures, such as Vasily Vereschagin’s Rejoicing from 1872, which hangs in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.