MacDougall Auctions 2-3 December 2009

2 December 2009

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Mayor Ferdytschenko with a Small Wooden Canon from</i> The History of One Town <i>by M. Saltykov-Schedrin

386. SAMOKHVALOV, ALEXANDER 1894-1971

Mayor Ferdytschenko with a Small Wooden Canon from The History of One Town by M. Saltykov-Schedrin signed with initials and dated 1931

Watercolour, feather and pencil on paper, 28 by 22 cm.
7,000-9,000 pounds


Provenance: The Lothar Bolz collection, Germany.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Private collection, the Netherlands.

Exhibited: Russische Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Nurnberg Exhibition Hall, Nurnberg, 22 June–28 August 1977.
Russische Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Auswahl aus einer Berliner Privatsammlung. The Altes Museum, Berlin, 2 November 1977–30 January 1978.

Literature: 150 Jahre Russische Graphik 1813-1963. Katalog einer Berliner Privatsammlung. Compiler W. Schmidt, State Art Collection of Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, 1964, p. 178, plate 2.
W. Schmidt, Russische Graphik des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts. Eine Berliner Privatsammlung. Leipzig, 1967, p. 255, plate II, listed, and plate 122, illustrated.
Ausstellungs-Katalog Russische Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Compilers U. Feist and G. Feist, Nurnberg, 1977, plate 381, illustrated.
Ausstellungs-Katalog Russische Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Auswahl aus einer Berliner Privatsammlung, Compilers U. Feist and G. Feist, Berlin, Berlin State Museum, Kupferstichkabinett und Sammlung der Zeichnungen, 1977, p. 119, plate 380, listed.


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