Russian Pictures
Russian Pictures
Alexander Viktorovich Moravov
Children in the Snow
Auction Closed
November 30, 02:40 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Viktorovich Moravov
1878 - 1959
Children in the Snow
signed in Cyrillic l.l.; further bearing a Santa Barbara Museum of Art inventory label on the backing board
oil on canvas
Canvas: 69 by 78.5cm, 27¼ by 31in.
Framed: 90 by 103.5cm, 35½ by 40¾in.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, gift of the estate of Sonia Colefax, 1995-1997
Sotheby’s New York, Arcade Auction: Old Master and 19th Century European Art, 8 January 1998, lot 470
This charming winter scene was once in the collection of Sonia Colefax, one of the most colourful Russian émigrés to settle in the United States in the early 1920. She amassed an important collection of Russian art, including works by Vinogradov, Kustodiev and Nesterov.