4 June 2014 Russian Art Auctions

4 June 2014

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Ray of Sun in the Forest

127. KONCHALOVSKY, PETR (1876-1956)

Ray of Sun in the Forest, signed, also further signed, numbered “862” and dated 1930 on the reverse.

Oil on canvas, 63.5 by 72.5 cm.
85,000-120,000 GBP


Provenance: Collection of Ekaterina Semenova, the artist’s granddaughter.
Private collection, UK.

Exhibited: P.P. Konchalovsky.Vos’maya personal’naya vystavka. 1930–1932, Vsekokhudozhnik, Moscow, 1932.
P.P. Konchalovsky. Desyataya personal’naya vystavka. XXXV let tvorcheskoi deyatel’nosti, Moscow Association of Artists, Moscow, 1941.
P.P. Konchalovsky. Chetyrnadzataya personal’naya vystavka proizvedenii. K 40-letiyu tvorcheskoi deyatel’nosti, Moscow Association of Artists, Moscow, 1947.
Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky. Pyatnadzataya personal’naya vystavka proizvedenii. K 75-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR, Moscow, 1951.
P.P. Konchalovsky. Shestnadzataya personal’naya vystavka proizvedenii, Moscow–Leningrad, 1956.
P.P. Konchalovsky, K stoletiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow, 1976.

Literature: V. Nikolsky, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Moscow, Vsekokhudozhnik, 1936, p. 57, illustrated as Osen’; p. 17, listed as Luch solntsa v lesu.
Exhibition catalogue, P.P. Konchalovsky. Desyataya personal’naya vystavka. XXXV let tvorcheskoi deyatel’nosti, Moscow–Leningrad, Iskusstvo, 1941, p. 18, listed under works from 1930.
Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka proizvedenii Narodnogo khudozhnika RSFSR i laureata Stalinskoi premii P.P. Konchalovskogo, Moscow, 1947, p. 14, listed under works from 1930.
K. Kravchenko, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Moscow–Leningrad, Isskustvo, 1949, p. 26, mentioned in the text.
Exhibition catalogue, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky. Pyatnadzataya personal’naya vystavka proizvedenii. K 75-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow, 1951, listed under works from 1930.
Exhibition catalogue, Vystavka proizvedeniy P.P. Konchalovskogo, Moscow, 1956, p. 21, listed under works from 1930.
Konchalovsky. Khudozhestvennoe nasledie, Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1964, pl. 87, illustrated; p. 125, listed as “zhi 715”.
M. Neiman, P.P. Konchalovsky, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1967, listed under works from 1930.
A. Korzukhin, P. Konchalovsky. Kraski zemli, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1974, p. 24.
Exhibition catalogue, P.P. Konchalovsky, K stoletiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1976, listed under works from 1930.


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