10 June 2021
A Lady and the City, signed and dated 1930.
Oil on canvas, 84 by 76 cm.
25,000–40,000 GBP
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Private collection, USA.
Exhibited: Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Boris Anisfeld, Art Institute, Chicago, 8 May–8 June 1958, No. 81.
A Time to Gather… Russian Art from Foreign Private Collections, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, 14 February–12 May 2008; Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Moscow, June–July 2008.
Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Boris Anisfeld, Chicago, 1958, p. 20, No. 81, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, A Time to Gather… Russian Art from Foreign Private Collections, St Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2007, p. 21, illustrated.
E. Lingenauber, O. Sugrobova-Roth and C. Chatfield-Taylor, Boris Anisfeld. Catalogue raisonné, Düsseldorf, Edition Libertars, 2011, p. 158, No. P395, illustrated and listed.
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