7 June 2017
Ray of Sun in the Forest, signed, also further signed, numbered "862" and dated 1930 on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 63.5 by 72.5 cm.
85,000-120,000 GBP
Provenance: Collection of Ekaterina Semenova, the artist’s granddaughter.
Private collection, UK.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert V. Petrov.
Exhibited: P. P. Konchalovsky. Vosmaia personalnaia vystavka. 1930–1932, Vsekokhudozhnik, Moscow, 1932.
P. P. Konchalovsky. Desiataia personalnaia vystavka. XXXV let tvorcheskoi deiatelnosti, Moscow Association of Artists, Moscow, 1941.
P. P. Konchalovsky. Chetyrnadtsataia personalnaia vystavka proizvedenii. K 40-letiiu tvorcheskoi deiatelnosti, Moscow Association of Artists, Moscow, 1947.
Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky. Piatnadtsataia personalnaia vystavka proizvedenii. K 75-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR, Moscow, 1951.
P. P. Konchalovsky, Shestnadtsataia personalnaшa vystavka proizvedenii, Moscow–Leningrad, 1956.
P. P. Konchalovsky, K stoletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Moscow, 1976.
Literature: V. Nikolsky, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Moscow, Vsekokhudozhnik, 1936, p. 57, illustrated as Osen; p. 17, listed as Luch solntsa v lesu.
Exhibition catalogue, P. P. Konchalovsky. Desiataia personalnaia vystavka. XXXV let tvorcheskoi deiatelnosti, Moscow– Leningrad, Iskusstvo, 1941, p. 18, listed under works from 1930.
Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka proizvedenii Narodnogo khudozhnika RSFSR i laureata Stalinskoi premii P. P. Konchalovskogo, Moscow, 1947, p. 14, listed under works from 1930.
K. Kravchenko, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Moscow–Leningrad, Isskustvo, 1949, p. 26, mentioned in the text.
Exhibition catalogue, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky. Piatnadtsataia personalnaia vystavka proizvedenii. K 75-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Moscow, 1951, listed under works from 1930.
Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo, Moscow, 1956, p. 21, listed under works from 1930.
Konchalovsky. Khudozhestvennoe nasledie, Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1964, pl. 87, illustrated; p. 125, listed as “zhi 715”.
M. Neiman, P. P. Konchalovsky, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1967, listed under works from 1930.
A. Korzukhin, P. Konchalovsky. Kraski zemli, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1974, p. 24.
Exhibition catalogue, P. P. Konchalovsky, K stoletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1976, listed under works from 1930.
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