Property from a Private Collection, New York
ROBERT RAFAILOVICH FALK | The Kremlin on a Grey Day, View from the Artist's Studio
Auction Closed
June 4, 12:47 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ROBERT RAFAILOVICH FALK
1886-1958
The Kremlin on a Grey Day, View from the Artist's Studio
oil on canvas
63.5 by 78.5cm, 25 by 31in.
Executed in 1948-1949
A.Shchekin-Krotova, Moscow
Acquired from the above by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
William Doyle, European and American Art, 20 November 2005, lot 112
D.V.Sarabianov, Robert Falk: Catalogue Raisonné, Moscow, 2006, p.730, no.1080 illustrated
The present lot was acquired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from the artist's widow via a commission store. It was bought to decorate the walls of Soviet embassies.