Catalogue: Important Russian Art Auction
15 October 2020
26. KONCHALOVSKY, PETR (1876–1956)
Ray of Sunlight in the Forest, signed, also further signed, numbered "862" and dated 1930 on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 63.5 by 72.5 cm.
50,000–70,000 GBP
Provenance: Collection of Ekaterina Semenova, the artist’s granddaughter, Moscow.
Private collection, UK.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert V. Petrov.
Exhibited: P. P. Konchalovsky. Vosmaia personalnaia vystavka. 1930–1932, Vsekokhudozhnik, Moscow, 1932.
P. P. Konchalovsky. Desiataia personalnaia vystavka. XXXV let tvorcheskoi deiatelnosti, Moskovskoe tovarishchestvo khudozhnikov, Moscow, 1941.
P. P. Konchalovsky. Chetyrnadtsataia personalnaia vystavka proizvedenii. K 40-letiiu tvorcheskoi deiatelnosti, Moskovskoe tovarishchestvo khudozhnikov, Moscow, 1947.
Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky. Piatnadtsataia personalnaia vystavka proizvedenii. K 75-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, USSR Academy of Arts of Arts, Moscow, 1951.
P. P. Konchalovsky, Shestnadtsataia personalnaia vystavka proizvedenii, Moscow–Leningrad, 1956.
P. P. Konchalovsky, K stoletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Moscow, 1976.
Literature: V. Nikolsky, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Moscow, Vsekokhudozhnik, 1936, p. 57, illustrated as Osen; p. 17, listed as Luch solntsa v lesu.
Exhibition catalogue, P. P. Konchalovsky. Desiataia personalnaia vystavka. XXXV let tvorcheskoi deiatelnosti, Moscow– Leningrad, Iskusstvo, 1941, p. 18, listed under works from 1930.
Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka proizvedenii Narodnogo khudozhnika RSFSR i laureata Stalinskoi premii P. P. Konchalovskogo, Moscow, 1947, p. 14, listed under works from 1930.
K. Kravchenko, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Moscow–Leningrad, Isskustvo, 1949, p. 26, mentioned in the text.
Exhibition catalogue, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky. Piatnadtsataia personalnaia vystavka proizvedenii. K 75-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Moscow, 1951, listed under works from 1930.
Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo, Moscow, 1956, p. 20, listed under works from 1930.
The present lot as illustrated and listed in Khudozhestvennoe nasledie
Verso of the present lot
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