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Konstantin Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky

Woman in a Headscarf

Lot Closed

June 8, 02:42 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Konstantin Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky

1906-1997

Woman in a Headscarf


signed in Cyrillic and dated 1930s on the reverse

oil on canvas

Canvas: 40.5 by 35cm, 15 ¾ by 13 ¾ in.


Executed in 1941

Family of the artist
Portraits feature prominently in Rozhdestvensky’s work from the late 1930s-early 1940s. These compositions retain the artist’s employment of powerful colour combinations while introducing a more detailed and realist rendering of the sitters’ facial features. The same female sitter, depicted by the artist from a different angle, yet wearing the same headscarf, features in another portrait dated 1941, allowing to date the present work to the same year.