MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions 27-30 May 2012

27 May 2012

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


A Village Church

103. SHILDER, ANDREI (1861-1919)

A Village Church, signed and dated 1917.

Oil on canvasboard, 50 by 64 cm.
30,000–40,000 GBP


Provenance: Collection of the Danish Consul General in St Petersburg, Michael Arentz Langberg, and his wife, Lidia Ivanovna Autz.
Private collection, UK.

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert V. Petrov.

Exhibited: Possibly The 46th Exhibition of the Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions, 1917–1918, No. 331.

Literature: Possibly G. Romanov, Tovarishchestvo peredvizhnikh khudozhestvennykh vystavok. 1871–1923. Entsiklopediya, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 457, No. 8–331, listed.


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