MacDougall Auctions 15 June 2007

15 June 2007

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Country of Fathers

* 68. KUSTODIEV, BORIS 1878-1927

Country of Fathers signed, inscribed and dated 1921.

Watercolour, gouache, pencil on paper, 33 by 19.5 cm.
8,000-12,000 Pounds


Provenance: Private collection, Germany.
Private collection, USA.

Literature: D. Sarabianov, Boris Kustodiev, Sovietsky Khudoznik, Moscow, 1982, p. 315, ill.
This is a costume design for a film based on the Gusev-Orenburgsky novel, Gorky Film Studio, 1921.


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