Cavorting at the dusk. Oil on board, 18x17 cm, 7 ¼ x 6 ¾ inches, sketch of the flowers on the back. C. 1905 – evidently constitutes one of the preliminary sketches for “Round Dance”, early 1900s, oil on cardboard, 71x75.5cm,  Russian Museum, SPB – illustrated in GOLUBAIAIA ROZA text by Ida Gofman, Moscow, 2000, p. 82. Compare also: “Fete Galante” – see Sotheby, London, 20 Nov 2002, lot 74. Bibliography: “A Time to Gather… RUSSIANART From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated on pp.23,24.

Provenance: Kachurin Collection, St. Petersburg.

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Allegorical Crucifixion (with Adoration of three Magi). Oil on cardboard, signed with monogram lower left, c. 1905 (compare dated lot 74 Sotheby Russian Pictures. London 22.05.2002 with similar compositional, technical and color structure , 13 x 11". Provenance: Kachurin Collection, St. Petersburg.  exhibited “A Time to Gather… RUSSIANART From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, February-June 2008, Moscow - Exhibition Center "Tsaritsyno", June-July 2008, Palace Editions,2008, illustrated in the catalog p. 145 ill 97

[“ The fantastic, allegorical and symbolic paintings by Nikolai Milioti attract  our attention with their extraordinary qualities. Sergei Makovsky called the artist “an experienced master, excellent at shaping and painting color music”. The color spots, which prevail over lines in Milioti’s works, were planned in detail to form a precise composition. This small painting is full of colors, emotions and details.  The landscape background is composed of small strokes that form a kind of unique decorative pattern. The color spots in blue, emerald green, red and yellow are slightly blurred, slightly smoky, and fill the composition. However, the ruby cloak on the figure on foreground has a powerful emotional resonance, and becomes the dominant of the whole picture”.]

In original hand-carved polychrome and parcel gilt French Gothic revival frame.