Klubbat för:

60000 SEK

Utropspris

30 000-40 000 SEK

Beskrivning

ALEXEI STEPANOVICH STEPANOV
Ryssland 1858-1923
Vinter i byn
Signerad. Olja på duk, 54 x 76 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.

Stepanov was born in the Crimea to a military family, but both his parents died when he was very young, and he grew up in a military orphanage in Moscow. He attended voluntary classes at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and began to exhibit with the Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) in 1888. In the following year, at the invitation of Valentin Serov, he began to teach classes in the Animalier section of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, which he continued to do until 1918. In 1905 he was named "Academician" by the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. One of his last paintings, "Swing", was acquired by the Carnegie Institute n Washington. His painting "Moose Herd" was purchased by Pavel Tretyakov himself in 1889, the Tretyakov Gallery have, in the intervening years, added another 18 works by Stepanov to the permanent collection of the museum.

Auktionsnummer:

3238

Datum:

2016-12-08