4 June 2014 Russian Art Auctions

4 June 2014

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Portrait of Anna Reikhshtadt in a Blue Shawl

* 159. KONCHALOVSKY, PETR (1876-1956)

Portrait of Anna Reikhshtadt in a Blue Shawl, signed and dated 1927, also further signed, titled in Cyrillic, numbered “633” and dated on the reverse.

Oil on canvas, 80.5 by 65 cm.
200,000-300,000 GBP


Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist’s family by the present owner.
Private collection, Europe.

Exhibited: Pyataya personal’naya vystavka kartin P.P. Konchalovskogo, State Chamber Theatre, Moscow, April 1928.
Shestaya personal’naya vystavka proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo, The State Russian Museum, Leningrad, March–June 1929.
Petr Petrovich Konchalovskii. Pyatnadzataya personal’naya vystavka. K 75-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Academy of Arts of the USSR, Moscow, March 1951.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Pyataya personal’naya vystavka kartin P.P. Konchalovskogo, Moscow, 1928.
Exhibition catalogue, Katalog vystavki proizvedenii P.P. Konchalovskogo, Leningrad, Izdanie Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo muzeya, 1929, p. 24, No. 113, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Petr Petrovich Konchalovskii. K 75-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow, Izdatel’stvo Akademii khudozhestv SSSR, 1951, listed under works from 1927.
Konchalovsky. Khudozhestvennoe nasledie, Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1964, p. 115, listed as “zhi 518”.
Exhibition catalogue, Unknown Konchalovsky, Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 2002, p. 118, the present lot can be seen on the wall in a photograph of the fifth personal exhibition of Konchalovsky’s work.

Portrait of Anna Reikhshtadt in a Blue Shawl

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