5 June 2013 Russian Art Auctions

5 June 2013

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Mythological Composition

* 487. BEKHTEEV, VLADIMIR (1878-1971)

Mythological Composition, signed with initials.

Pencil on paper, 33 by 20.5 cm
7,000–9,000 GBP


Executed in the late 1910s–early 1920s.

Provenance: Collection of N. Giber, the artist’s nephew, St Petersburg.
Important private collection, Europe.

Literature: D. Kogan, Vladimir Bekhteev, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1977, p. 222, listed; p. 223, illustrated in black and white.


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