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Property from a Private European Collection

Nicholas Roerich

Tarbagatai

Auction Closed

November 25, 06:21 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Nicholas Roerich

1874 - 1947


Tarbagatai

numbered N53., titled Tarbagatai and dated 1928-29 (in the artists's hand on the reverse)

tempera on canvas laid on board

32 by 41.5 cm, 12½ by 16⅜ in.

Framed: 59.5 by 69.5 cm, 23½ by 27⅜ in.

Executed in 1928-29.


We are grateful to Gvido Trepsa, Director of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, for providing additional cataloguing information.

The artist

The Roerich Museum, until 1935

Louis and Nettie Horch, New York, 1935-1966

Acquired from the above by John Manchester of Manchester Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, in 1966

Private collection, Chile

Sotheby's New York, Russian Art, 2 November 2009, lot 10

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

New York, Roerich Museum (permanent collection), 1929-1935

Roerich Museum Catalogue, New York, 1930, no. 969, listed as Tarbagatai. M[ongolia].