Sergei Vasilievich Gerasimov

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Description

Sergei Vasilievich Gerasimov
Picnic at Mozhaisk
oil on canvas
70 by 89.5cm, 27 1/2 by 35 1/4 in.

Exhibited

Minneapolis, The Museum of Russian Art, Shades of Red, The Evolution of Early Soviet Painting, 5 March - 17 September 2011

Catalogue Note

Gerasimov was born in Mozhaisk and lived there until he moved to Moscow to attend the prestigious Stroganov School for Technical Drawing in 1901. The present lot depicts a summer picnic in a meadow outside Mozhaisk as storm clouds gather with the Russian Gothic limestone and red brick Cathedral of St Nicholas visible on the left.