Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky

Paris, Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et de Beaux-Arts, Vtoraya vystavka proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo, 4 - 19 March 1925
Moscow, Kropotkinskaya naberezhnaya, 29, Tretya vystavka kartin i risunkov P.P. Konchalovskogo, March 1926
Leningrad, State Russian Museum, Shestaya vystavka proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo, March - June 1929
Moscow - Leningrad, Desyataya vystavka proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo k 35-letiu tvorcheskoi deyatelnosti, 1941
Moscow, AKh SSSR, ul. Kropotkinskaya, 21, Pyatnadtsataya vystavka proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo k 75-letiu so dnya rozhdeniya, March 1951
Moscow - Leningrad, Shestnadtsataya vystavka proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo, 1956

V.Nikolsky, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Moscow: Vsekhudozhnik, 1936, listed under works executed in 1924, p.12
Konchalovsky. Khudozhestvennoe nasledie, Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1964, pl.34; p.110, listed as zhi 437

Original canvas. There are frame abrasions along the edges with some associated paint loss. There are several minor flecks of paint loss and scattered craquelure, which is particularly visible in the area of the sky. Inspection under UV light does not reveal any apparent signs of retouching. Held in a gold-painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Konchalovsky visited Italy in 1924 to attend the XIV Esposizione Internationale d'arte in Venice, where he exhibited alongside Robert Falk among others. After the exhibition he went on to Rome, the city which he adored and considered ‘his second homeland’ (V.Nikolsky, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, 1936, p.94). The Grotto of Egeria which he painted during this trip was widely exhibited in subsequent years. The grotto itself can be found to the south-east of Rome near the Via Appia and had attracted visiting artists for centuries (fig.1). According to legend it was here among the ruins of the villa of Herodes Atticus that the nymph Egeria met with the second king of Rome.