29 November 2017 Russian Art Auctions
29 November 2017
135. TYRSA, NIKOLAI (1887-1942)
Young Nude
Oil on paper, laid on cardboard, 65.5 by 49 cm (cardboard size).
30,000-40,000 GBP
Executed in 1935.
Provenance: Collection of Boris Suris, art historian and author of the monograph on the artist, Leningrad (label on the reverse).
Important private collection, Europe.
Exhibited: Nikolai Andreevich Tyrsa. Vystavka proizvedenii. K 100-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Leningradskii klub ekslibrisistov i liubitelei grafiki, Dvorets kultury Lensoveta, Leningrad, 8 June 1987.
60 Chefs d’oeuvre de l’ cole russe. Le nu en peinture 1900–1970, Centre d’art La Malmaison, Cannes, 5 November 2010–27 February 2011.
Venere Russa. Fascino femminile nell’arte del Novecento, Bordighera, 9 July–28 September 2014.
Literature: Exhibition catalogue, B. Suris, Nikolai Andreevich Tyrsa. Vystavka proizvedenii. Katalog. K 100-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987, p. 14, illustrated; p. 6, listed as Pogrudnyi portret obnazhennoi devushki.
Exhibition catalogue, 60 Chefs d’oeuvre de l’ cole russe. Le nu en peinture 1900–1970, Cannes, Centre d’art La Malmaison, 2010, p. 105, illustrated.
X. Muratova, Venere Russa. Fascino femminile nell’arte del novecento, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2014, p. 95, illustrated.
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