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Property from a Private Collection, England

NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH ROERICH | GURU-GURI DAR

Auction Closed

November 26, 01:34 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH ROERICH

1874-1947

GURU-GURI DAR


signed with the artist's monogram l.l.; further bearing an Explorers Club collection label on the reverse 

tempera on paper laid on card

22 by 30.5cm, 8¾ by 12in.

Executed circa 1929-1933

The collection of Ilya Andreevich Tolstoy (1903-1970), American envoy to Tibet and member of the Explorers Club

Private collection, USA

Sotheby's London, Russian Pictures Including Works on Paper by Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, 1 December 2015, lot 116

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

'…to the north of Kulu rise the white peaks of the main Himalayan range. Beyond them lies the road to Lahoul and Ladak and the main white giant is called Guru-Guri Dhar – the Path of the Spiritual Teacher', N.Roerich, Gods of Kaluta.


We would like to thank Gvido Trepša, Senior Researcher, Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, for providing additional catalogue information.