Klubbat för:

60000 SEK

Utropspris

60 000-80 000 SEK

Beskrivning

ALEXANDER ALEXEIEVICH BUCHKURI
Ryssland 1870-1942
Flicka från Podgorny
Signerad. Olja på duk, 81 x 59 cm

PROVENANCE
Purchased by Maria Dirina and her husband the Swedish businessman Gösta Hellman (the grandparents of the present owners) in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. The Dirins were landowners who lived near Kharkov. Shortly after the revolution Maria Dirina met and fell in love with the Swedish Businessman Gösta Hellman. Her younger sister Olga, however, was suffering from tuberculosis, so Hellman married her and brought her to Stockholm for treatment. He then immediately divorced her, and returned to Russia to marry the woman he loved, Maria. He was working for SKF (a large Swedish company with business interests in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kharkov), and together the couple formed this collection of paintings, bringing them first to Helsinki and then finally to Stockholm when they settled there after the end of the Second World War.

Buchkuri, who was born and died in Voronezh, studied at the Imperial Academy under Ilya Repin, who wrote of him: "he is an outstanding artist and I am proud that he was my pupil" (see M.V. Ilinsky, A.A. Buchkuri, Life and Work, Voronezh, 1958, p.5). The offered lot is one of a series of peasant girls he painted in the village of Podgorny, near Voronezh, where the artist lived and worked after moving there from St. Petersburg in 1907, some of these were exhibited in London (1910), Munich (1911) and Venice (1913). Buchkuri, together with his wife, was murdered by the Nazis in Voronezh in 1942 in a spontaneous mass execution in the middle of the city.

Auktionsnummer:

3247

Datum:

2016-12-08