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920000 SEK

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400 000-500 000 SEK

Beskrivning

ALEXEI PETROVICH BOGOLIUBOV
Ryssland 1824-1896
Zvenigorod
Signerad. Olja på pannå, 27,5 x 41 cm
Finskt tullmärke på baksidan av pannån.

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.

There are two other known views of Zvenigorod by Bogoliubov, both in the Radishev Museum of Art in Saratov, which was founded by the artist himself. One is dated to 1873, the other is considered to date from the 1880s. Bogoliubov was very fond of compositions that included sweeping views of rivers from a high viewpoint, and enjoyed the painterly juxtaposition of the very near with the very far, all exquisitely rendered on a fine oak panel. Zvenigorod is one of the oldest cities of the Moscow region, situated on the left bank of the Moscow River, 50 km west of the capital. Founded by Yuri Dolgoruky in 1152, it became the centre of an independent principality from 1339-1492, although the first Zvenigorod princes used to live in Moscow. Its proximity to the capital made it in the 19 th century, and still today, a favorite place for weekend holiday excursions for Muscovites.

Auktionsnummer:

3232

Datum:

2016-12-08