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Property from a Private Collection, London

Leonid Pasternak

Portrait of Tolstoy against a Stormy Sky

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December 1, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection, London

Leonid Pasternak

1862 - 1945

Portrait of Tolstoy against a Stormy Sky


signed in Cyrillic and dated 1901 l.r., indistinctly inscribed and dated 10/VI l.l.

charcoal, pastel, watercolour and wash on paper

Sheet: 31 by 29.5cm, 12¼ by 11½in.

Framed: 46 by 39cm, 18 by 15¼in.

Private collection, Riga
Christie's London, Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art, 6 March 1986, lot 153
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
C.Bialik, M.Osborn, L.Pasternak: His Life and Work, Berlin: Stybel, 1924, no.48 illustrated b/w
M.Osborn, Leonid Pasternak, Warschau: Stybel, 1932, p.61 illustrated b/w
P.Mark, The Family Pasternak, Geneva: Éditions Poésie Vivante, 1975, p.73 illustrated b/w
L.Pasternak, J. Pasternak, The Memoirs of Leonid Pasternak, London: Quartet Books, 1982 illustrated b/w
R.Salys, Leonid Pasternak, The Russian Years: 1875-1921. A Critical Study and Catalogue, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, vol.I, p.60, no.22 listed; vol.II, p.67, no.22 illustrated b/w
J.Bowlt, N.Lobanov-Rostovsky, N.Lobanov-Rostovsky, Encyclopedia of Russian Stage Design, 1880-1930, London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2013, p.313, no.805 listed and illustrated
Riga, Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Exhibition of the Works of Moscow Artists and of V.Purvit, 1907, no.19 (sold for 200 rubles)
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russkoe teatral'noe-dekoratsionnoe iskusstvo, 1910-1930, 26 Feburary - 27 March 1988