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Lot 303
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Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov
  • Coin du salon
  • signed in Latin l.r.; further inscribed in Latin, numbered 452 and dated 1922-23 on the reverse
  • oil on card
  • image size: 16.8 by 11.4cm, 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 in.

Provenance

Collection of Eugénie Wulfert and Boris Wulfert Pokhitonov, Belgium
Private collection, Belgium
Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, Catalogue des importants tableaux modernes [...], 7 May 1928, no.107
Private collection, Belgium

Exhibited

Anvers, Salle Buyl, Iwan Pokitonov, May 1923, no.38 as Intérieur
Liège, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Parc de la Boverie, Société Royale des Beaux-Arts. Salon Triennal de 1924, 10 May - 29 June 1924, no.20 as Intérieur

Condition

The board appears sound. There is a layer of light surface dirt. UV light does not appear to reveal any retouching. Held in a wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

In 1920 Pokhitonov left Russia and moved back to Belgium. He was initially based at La Panne for a few months over Christmas, continuing with his painting, in particular some lovely landscapes of dunes covered in snow.  With his health in decline he wished to be closer to his doctor, Dr Weill, so he relocated to a flat in Brussels at 167 Rue du Trone. He spent the last two years of his life here with his long-term partner Eugénie, still close enough to Boitsfort to allow for long walks in the countryside. His large and light-filled studio had large windows facing the Rue du Trone on one side and a small white-walled garden at the back. He painted a number of still lifes at this point, principally flowers; he also returned to earlier compositions and painted a few rare and charming depictions of his flat – only five are currently known. In a contemporary photograph of the artist’s living room we find the subject of the present painting: a scene close to a big window, the furniture and the numerous pictures which still decorated his apartment and reminded him of his remarkable and productive career.

We are grateful to Olivier Bertrand, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Ivan Pokhitonov, for providing additional cataloguing information.