Vasilii Dmitrievich Polenov
'There were also women looking from afar off', 1908 105 x 167cm (41 1/2 x 66in).
Estimate: 500.000 - 700.000 GBP
Price realised: 1.542.300 GBP
Price realised: 1.542.300 GBP
Description
Vasilii Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian, 1844-1927)
'There were also women looking from afar off', 1908
signed in Cyrillic "Polenov" (lower right); verso applied with label inscribed in Cyrillic by M.V. Polenova, the artist's daughter "Vasily Polenov", further label on stretcher: "Russian art exhibition / Grand Central Palace / New York" (verso), with two Cyrillic monograms on stretcher "VP"
oil on canvas
105 x 167cm (41 1/2 x 66in).
Part of the series of paintings The Life of Christ completed by the artist in late 1890-1900s. | Acquired by the American industrialist and diplomat Charles R. Crane from the exhibition of nine paintings from the Life of Christ series at the Russian Art Exhibition, Grand Central Palace, New York, 1924. | By descent to his daughter, Ellen Douglas Bruce Crane Fisher (1913-2000). | Presented by the above to a North American institution, early 1950s.
'There were also women looking from afar off', 1908
signed in Cyrillic "Polenov" (lower right); verso applied with label inscribed in Cyrillic by M.V. Polenova, the artist's daughter "Vasily Polenov", further label on stretcher: "Russian art exhibition / Grand Central Palace / New York" (verso), with two Cyrillic monograms on stretcher "VP"
oil on canvas
105 x 167cm (41 1/2 x 66in).
Part of the series of paintings The Life of Christ completed by the artist in late 1890-1900s. | Acquired by the American industrialist and diplomat Charles R. Crane from the exhibition of nine paintings from the Life of Christ series at the Russian Art Exhibition, Grand Central Palace, New York, 1924. | By descent to his daughter, Ellen Douglas Bruce Crane Fisher (1913-2000). | Presented by the above to a North American institution, early 1950s.
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