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ALEXEI DANILOVICH KIVSHENKO | KOZMA MININ'S APPEAL TO NIZHNY NOVGOROD IN 1611
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Property from a Private Collection, United States
ALEXEI DANILOVICH KIVSHENKO
1851-1895
KOZMA MININ'S APPEAL TO NIZHNY NOVGOROD IN 1611
signed in Cyrillic and dated 80 l.l.
watercolour heightened with white on paper
Sheet: 32.5 by 43.5cm, 12¾ by 17¼in.
Framed: 47 by 58.5cm, 18½by 23in.
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Exhibition catalogue A Time to Gather: Russian Art from Foreign Private Collections, St Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2008, pl.37 illustrated, p.80 listed
St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, A Time to Gather: Russian Art from Foreign Private Collections, 11 June - 9 September, 2008
Kivshenko produced the present watercolour for the album Otechestvennaya istoria v kartinax dlya shkoli i doma (A History of Russia in Pictures for the School and the Home). Published by Sergei Rozhdestvensky in 1881 as a supplement to his history text books, the portfolio included 30 watercolours by Kivshenko reproduced as chromolithographs, which could be bought separately or as a set. The present lot was published as number 11.