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La Garde-Freinet, signed and dated 1931.
Tempera on canvas, 61 by 78.5 cm.
60,000-90,000 GBP
Provenance: Collection of Jo Gluša, Prague.
Collection of Emil Fiala, Prague.
Collection of Nikolai Okunev (1885-1949), Prague.
With the Slavic Institute, Prague.
Important private collection, Europe.
Exhibited: Retrospektivni vystavy ruskeho malirstvi XVIII – XX. St., The Slavic Institute, Prague, 9 March – 31 May 1935.
Vasily Shukhaev. A Retrospective, MMOMA, Moscow, October-December 2014.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert Yu. Rybakova.
Literature: Exhibition catalogue, T. Saturník, F. Táborský, N. Okunev, Katalog retrospektivni vystavy ruskeho malirstvi XVIII – XX. St., Prague, Slovanski ustav v Praze, 1935, p. 43, No. 294, listed as Krajina v jizni Francii.
V. Fiala, Russkaia zhivopis v sobraniiakh Chekhoslovakii, Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974, p. 144, illustrated and listed.
Exhibition catalogue, E. Yakovleva, T. Kamenskaya, Vasily Shukhaev. A Retrospective, Moscow, MMOMA, 2014, No. 22, illustrated and listed.
We are grateful to the expert Dr Elena Yakovleva for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.
The present lot as listed in the 1935 exhibition catalogue
The present lot as illustrated in the 1974 publication
The present lot as illustrated in the 2014 exhibition catalogue
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