MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions 27-30 May 2012

27 May 2012

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Sea and Rocks, Capri (III)

* 110. ANISFELD, BORIS (1878-1973)

Sea and Rocks, Capri (III), signed, inscribed “Kapri” [sic] and dated 1911, also further signed, inscribed “Capri” and dated on the reverse.

Oil on canvas, 70 by 86 cm.
60,000–90,000 GBP


Provenance: Estate of the artist.

Exhibited: Mir iskusstva, Moscow, 1911.
Mir iskusstva, St Petersburg, 1912.
The Boris Anisfeld Exhibition, itinerant: Brooklyn Museum, Boston Art Club, Albright Art Gallery Buffalo, Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, Minneapolis Institute of Art, St Louis City Art Museum, San Francisco Palace of Honor, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1918–1920, No. 30.
Boris Anisfeld Retrospective Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1958, No. 54.
Boris Anisfeld. Paintings and Stage Designs 1906–1926, Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2003–2004, No. 7.

Literature: C. Brinton, The Boris Anisfeld Exhibition, New York, 1918, No. 30.
Exhibition catalogue, Boris Anisfeld Retrospective Exhibition, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1958, No. 54.
Boris Anisfeld. Paintings and Stage Designs 1906–1926, New York, Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2003, No. 7, illustrated.
E. Lingenauber and O. Sugrobova-Roth, Boris Anisfeld. Catalogue raisonné, Düsseldorf, Edition Libertars, 2011, p. 130, P 206, illustrated.


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