29 November 2017
Little Schemers, signed and dated 1892.
Oil on canvas, 83 by 57 cm.
50,000-70,000 GBP
Provenance: Important private collection, Europe.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert V. Petrov.
Exhibited: XX peredvizhnaia vystavka Tovarishchestva peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok, St Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkov et al., 23 February 1892–28 February 1893.
Literature: N. Sobko, Illiustrirovannyi katalog XX-oi peredvizhnoi vystavki Tovarishchestva peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok, St Petersburg, N. Sobko, 1892, illustrated in black and white and listed.
G. Romanov, Tovarishchestvo peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok. 1871–1923 gg., entsiklopediia, St Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg Orkestr, 2003, p. 147, No. 1–109, illustrated in black and white, and listed as Plutovki.
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