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Konstantin Andreevich Somov

Paysannes russes

Auction Closed

December 1, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Konstantin Andreevich Somov

1869 - 1939

Paysannes russes


signed in Cyrillic and dated 1928 l.r.; further signed, inscribed and bearing various exhibition labels on the backing board

watercolour heightened with white over pencil and green ink on paper laid on card

Sheet: 28.5 by 23cm, 11¼ by 9in.

Framed: 42 by 37cm, 16½ by 14½in.

A.A. Popoff, Paris
Sotheby's London, The Russian Sale, 14-15 December 1995, lot 274
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Exposition d'art russe ancien et moderne, April-June 1928, no.871

Copenhagen, Russisk Maleriudstilling, 7-20 February 1929, no.106

Belgrade, Velika izlozba ruske umetnosti, 1930, no.194

Exhibition catalogue Exposition d'art russe ancien et moderne, Brussels, 1928, p.80, no.871 listed as Paysanne russe dans un paysage

Exhibition catalogue Velika izlozba ruske umetnosti, Belgrade, 1930, p.24, no.194 listed as Dve selyanke

L.Korotkina, Konstantin Andreevich Somov, St Petersburg: Zolotoi vek, 2004, p.94 illustrated; p.256 listed