5 June 2019 Important Russian Art Auctions, at Asia House
5 June 2019
24. SHUKHAEV, VASILY (1887–1973)
In the Auvergne, signed and dated 1929.
Tempera on canvas, 78 by 60.5 cm.
25,000–40,000 GBP
Provenance: Collection of A. Chudnovsky, Leningrad.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert E. Yakovleva.
Exhibited: V. I. Shukhaev, Exhibition galleries "Vsekokhudozhnik", Moscow, 24 February–7 March 1936; Research Museum of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Leningrad, April 1936, under the title Korsika (label on the stretcher).
Vystavka proizvedenii V. I. Shukhaeva, Artists' Union of the Georgian SSR, Tbilisi, 1954.
Vystavka proizvedenii V. I. Shukhaeva, Artists' Union of the USSR, Moscow, 1958 (label on the stretcher).
Vystavka proizvedenii V. I. Shukhaeva, National Picture Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, March 1962.
Vystavka proizvedenii V. I. Shukhaeva, Leningrad section of the Artists' Union of the USSR, Leningrad, December 1962–January 1963.
Vystavka proizvedenii V. I. Shukhaeva. K 80-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Research Museum of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Leningrad, 1968.
Literature: Exhibition catalogue, V.I. Shukhaev, Moscow, Artists’ Union of the USSR, 1958, p. 8, listed under the year 1929.
Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka proizvedenii V.I. Shukhaeva, Tbilisi, National Picture Gallery of Georgia, 1962, p. 39, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, N. Sosnovskaia, Zh. Rybakova (eds), Vasily Ivanovich Shukhaev. K vosmidesiatiletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Leningrad, Research Museum of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, 1968, p. 9, listed under the year 1929.
I. Miamlin, Vasilii Ivanovich Shukhaev, Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972, possibly, p. 77, mentioned in the text; p. 150, listed.
T. Iudina, “Vystavki Vsekokhudozhnika”, Antikvarnyi mir, No. 10, January 2017, p. 76, illustrated.
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