Lot 23
  • 23

Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
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Description

  • Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
  • blue landscape
  • signed with artist's cypher in Cyrillic l.r.
  • gouache with pastel on paper laid on canvas
  • 29 by 45.5cm., 11 1/2 by 18in.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Barnett D.Conlan, a journalist for the Daily Mail and stepfather of the present owner
Thence by descent

Condition

The paper is a bit discoloured and there is minor wear along the edges. The colours are bright. Held in a perspex box. Unexamined out of box.
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Catalogue Note

This painting was executed in 1924.