Lot 112
  • 112

Vasily Ivanovich Shukhaev

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Vasily Ivanovich Shukhaev
  • Portrait of a Finn
  • signed with a monogram, inscribed Mustamyaki and dated 17 VII 1920 l.l.
  • sanguine on paper laid on board
  • image size: 36 by 26cm, 14 1/4 by 10 1/4 in.

Provenance

Lev Gerasimovich Loitsyansky (1900-1991), St Petersburg 
Elena Lvovna Ryabinkina (b.1941), Moscow

Exhibited

Leningrad, USSR Academy of Arts, Vasilii Ivanovich Shukhaev. K vos’midesyatiletiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, 1968

Literature

Zhar-Ptitsa, no.1, August 1921, p.9 illustrated b/w
Exhibition catalogue Vasilii Ivanovich Shukhaev. K vos’midesyatiletiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Leningrad, 1968, p.21 listed as Finn
I.Myamlin, Vasilii Shukhaev, Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972, p.165 listed as Finn

Condition

The sheet has been laid down on board. There are minor losses to the top edge of the sheet and the bottom edge is covered with a strip of Japan paper. There are pinholes to the corners. The sheet has discoloured in line with age, there are some scattered spots of foxing and some media staining is visible along the edges. There is a stain to the sitters hair. Held in a gold painted wooden frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

We would like to thank Dr Elena Yakovleva, art historian and senior research fellow of the Russian Institute of Art History, for providing additional cataloguing information.