12 October 2015 Russian Art Auctions
12 October 2015
69. BELYAEV, NIKOLAY (1916-2000)
They Are Happy, signed and dated 1949, also further signed and titled in Cyrillic on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 149 by 194 cm.
20,000-30,000 GBP
Executed c. 1949.
Provenance: Private collection, UK.
Exhibited: Respublikanskaya vystavka proizvedenii khudozhnikov krayov, oblastei i avtonomnykh respublik RSFSR, Exhibition Galleries of the Moscow Association of Artists and the Organising Committee of the USSR Union of Artists, Moscow, 1949.
Severity of Style, MacDougall’s, London, 1–14 May 2015.
Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Respublikanskaya vystavka proizvedenii khudozhnikov krayov, oblastei i avtonomnykh respublik RSFSR. Zhivopis. Skulptura. Grafika. Laki, Moscow, Komitet po delam iskusstv pri Sovete Ministrov RSFSR, 1949, p. 8, No. 49, listed.
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