28 Nov 2018 Important Russian Art Auctions, at Asia House

28 November 2018

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Winter Brook

173. DMITRIEVSKY, VIKTOR (1923–2006)

Winter Brook, signed and dated 1968, also further signed twice, titled in Cyrillic and dated on the stretcher.

Oil on canvas, 110 by 138.5 cm.
2,000-3,000 GBP


Provenance: A gift from Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the CPSU (1964–1982), to Prime Minister Harold Wilson in Moscow in February 1975.
Thence by descent.
Private collection, UK.


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