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Lot 345
  • 345

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin
  • Dans les vignes de La Favière
  • signed in Latin, initialled in Cyrillic and dated 1933 l.l.; further inscribed and titled in Latin and bearing a 1935 exhibition label on the backing board
  • watercolour over pencil on paper laid on board
  • 47 by 31cm, 18 1/2 by 12 1/4 in.

Provenance

Gift from the artist to Professor N.L.Okunev

Exhibited

Prague, Institut Slave, Exposition de la Peinture Russe, 1935, no.42

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Exposition de la Peinture Russe, Prague 1935, p.36, no.167 listed; no.14 illustrated

Condition

The support is in good order, with some minor wear to the edges. There are some minor disolourations and some surface dirt. Held in a gold painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

Bilibin owned a modest summer house in La Favière which he used as a base for sketching and painting holidays.