3 June 2015
The Golden Tribute, signed, further inscribed “Bowron Guisti” on the stretcher.
Oil on canvas, 195.5 by 265 cm.
350,000-500,000 GBP
Executed c. 1908.
Provenance: Russian Art, Sotheby’s New York, 16 April 2007, lot 375.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Private collection, UK.
Exhibited: Otchetnaya vystavka Vysshego khudozhestvennogo uchilishcha, Imperial Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, 1908.
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. 6.
Boris Anisfeld. Watercolours, Oils and Sculptures, MacDougall’s, London, 22 September–31 October 2008.
Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Otchetnaya vystavka Vysshego khudozhestvennogo uchilishcha, St Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Arts, 1908, No. 13.
Exhibition catalogue, C. Brinton, The Boris Anisfeld Exhibition, New York, 1918, No. 6, illustrated.
Boris Anisfeld. Catalogue raisonné, Düsseldorf, Edition Libertars, 2011, P 070, p. 108, illustrated; pp. 107, 108, listed.
Notes on symbols:
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§ Indicates Artist's Resale Right applies.
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