7 June 2017 Russian Art Auctions

7 June 2017

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Nizhny Novgorod

* 52. KUPRIN, ALEXANDER (1880-1960)

Nizhny Novgorod, signed.

Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper, 44 by 60 cm.
25,000-30,000 GBP


Executed c. 1921.

Provenance: Acquired from the artist’s family by the present owner.
Private collection, USA.

Literature: K. Kravchenko, A. V. Kuprin, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1973, p. 207, illustrated.


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