ÉCOLE DE PARIS AND OTHER MASTERS
5 December 2023
◎ 7. BOGDANOV-BELSKY, NIKOLAI (1868-1945)
A Young Sorceress, signed twice, once in Cyrillic, further signed on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 127 by 102 cm (oval).
40,000-60,000 GBP
Provenance: With A La Vieille Russie, New York.
Purchased from the above by a previous owner in 1986.
Private collection of a New York financier.
Gift from the above to the previous owner.
The Russian Sale, Bonhams London, 30 November 2011, lot 32.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Private collection, USA.
The work will be included in the monograph on the artist being prepared by A. Kouznetsoff.
Exhibited: XXXVII peredvizhnaia vystavka Tovarishchestva peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok, 1908-1909, Moscow and St. Petersburg, the painting was only exhibited in St. Petersburg, 6 February-5 April 1909.
Literature: Grigory Romanov, Tovarishchestvo Peredvizhnykh Khudozhestvennykh Vystavok, 1871-1923, "XXXVII exhibition", 1909, St. Petersburg, 2003, p, 336, no. 3-17, illustrated and listed as Molodaia vedma.
Possibly, Niva, St Petersburg, No. 8, 1914, p. 159, "Akademik N.P. Bogdanov-Belskii v svoei masterskoi. Po povodu 25-letiia khudozhestvennnoi deiatelnosti", photograph by K. Glybovskaya.
Possibly, reproduced on the postcard published by the St Eugenia Red Cross Society.
The present lot as listed and illustrated in the Romanov catalogue
Verso of the present lot
Niva, St Petersburg, No. 8, 1914, p. 159, "Akademik N.P. Bogdanov-Belskii v svoei masterskoi. Po povodu 25-letiia khudozhestvennnoi deiatelnosti", photograph by K. Glybovskaya
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