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Russian church in Suzdal, near Moscow. Oil/cardboard. Signed lower left in Cyrillic and on reverse, inscribed in Cyrillic “Suzdal” on reverse. [1903]. 14 x
10". Listed as “Suzdal. White Church” in Roerich N.K. Text by S. Ernst. St-Petersburg, St. Eugeni, 1918, p.113.
Authenticity confirmed by New York
Roerich Museum (Director of Museum Mr. Daniel Entin e-mail of 07.12.2004).
Exhibited: “Monuments of Ancient Art,” Society of Art Encouragement,
Petersburg, January 1904. Similar view is in State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow and is published in “Moscow 1900-1930”,
Text by S. Fauchereau, Rizzoli New
York, p14, ill #9 [ One of 75 studies of Russian churches, which Roerich has done during his travel in Russian ancient towns in summer 1903.All of them had been exhibited in January 1904 in Society of Art Encouragement, Petersburg (exhibition “Monuments of Ancient Art”) and partly later same year
in USA, where they have been sold from the auction. Part of them was later(1974) returned in Russia as a gift by K. Campbell- |
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Stibbe, then honorable president of Roerich Museum New York
– see Roerich in Peterburg – Petrograd by L. Korotkina, Lenizdat 1985, pp 118-119.]. The slide shows of about 50 of these works are now available on Roerich Museum (NY) website. In original Victorian painted and parcel gilt altar-piece frame with a head of a saint at the cresting and phoenixes at the sides (provenance for the frame: sale
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Mountain Lake. Pastel on paper.
Signed low right. c 1915 |
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Shadow of the Teacher. Charcoal, chalk and watercolor on paper laid on cardboard, initialed l.r. in Cyrillic, 6 ¼ x 9 7/8 inch. . Bears numbers 47 (33) and half-destroyed exhibition label on the back. This is a study for bigger painting “His Shadow”, 1932, 74,5x117,5, tempera, canvas, Russia, Moscow, Tretiakov Gallery, #518. Provenance: Roerich New York Museum (according to RM inventory list, it was”Sold to Mrs. K.S.C.
Dec 15, 1933 $100”.). In original American, 20th Century, Arts & Crafts hand carved and gilded, Taos-style frame with swastikas at the corners, by Frederick Loeser |
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Pines in Karelia. Oil on paper, signed low right in Cyrillic and dated 1907, 16x12 inches. Provenance: Collection Armand Daillot,
Paris ( bears stamp on reverse). Listed as “Pines” pp 90, 118 in “Roerich N.K.” Text by S. Ernst. St-Petersburg, St. Eugeni,
1918, p.113 Exhibited: “A Time to Gather… Russian Art 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. 121 ill 77
[“Karelia, with its unique nature and individual pictiresqueness, attracted Roerich. He saw something primitive and severe in its cliffs and pine forests, and that made the artist use simple and modest artistic techniques. This landscape dates back to the “boundary” period of Roerich’s life, when he trued to find his own unique style, developing from his teacher Arkhip Kuindzhi’s manner. He spent the summer of 1907 in Finland with his family. There he made not only symbolic compositions, bur sketches as well. In this picture, the composition and painting techniques of which are in naturalistic style, Roerich seems more to fix the visible qualities of nature, rather then trying to create some specific artistic effect.”]
In original Dutch XVII century ebonized hand carved ripple
moulding frame [provenance for the frame: Bonhams London sale 9
Dec 2009 lot 221]
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