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Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge

Portrait of Nikolai, the Artist's Son

Auction Closed

December 1, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge

1831 - 1894

Portrait of Nikolai, the Artist's Son


signed in Cyrillic, inscribed Khutor and dated 1882 l.r.; further bearing the remnants of several wax seals and a label on the stretcher

oil on canvas

Canvas: 100 by 69cm, 39¼ by 27¼in.

Estate of the artist
Possibly, collection of the State Tretaykov Gallery, Moscow (1897-1900)
Collection of the sitter, Geneva, until his death in 1938
Thence by descent to Beatrice de Watteville, Château de Gingins, Vaud
Acquired at the estate sale of the above by the Swiss publishing house Librairie Nouvelle in 1952
Al'bom khudozhestvennykh proizvedenii Nikolaya Nikolaevicha Ge, Moscow: Posrednik, 1904, p.66 illustrated, p.12 listed