Lot 198
  • 198

Amshei Nurenberg

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Amshei Nurenberg
  • View of a Mosque
  • oil on canvas
  • 35 by 40cm, 13 1/2 by 15 3/4 in.

Condition

The canvas has been striplined. The surface is covered with a layer of varnish. There is craquelure visible on the surface, and minor paint loss around the edges. Under UV pigment appears to fluoresce in the right corner. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

One of the so-called ‘Odessan Parisians’, Amshei Nurenberg studied in Paris in the early 1910s where he shared a studio at one point with Marc Chagall at La Ruche, before returning to Odessa where he headed a modernist group of artists which became known as the ‘Independents’. His vivid 1915 landscape Salome’s Feast was the centrepiece of the Yakov Pereman collection. During the 1920s he lectured on the Barbizon School, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Picasso at Vkhutemas.

The present works date from Nurenberg’s trip to Uzbekistan in 1921-1922, when he was detailed to work on the restoration of architectural and historic monuments in the region. A number of his drawings from this trip were illustrated in Samarkand i Tashkent published in Moscow in 1922. In his introductory text, Victor Midler draws comparisons between the work of his fellow Odessan to the landscapes of Cézanne and Derain. Alexander Shevchenko, Robert Falk and Amshei Nuremberg exhibited together in 1924 in Moscow. The show included a number of the latter’s Central Asian works.