Klubbat för:

280000 SEK

Utropspris

80 000-100 000 SEK

Beskrivning

IVAN LAVRENTIEVICH GOROKHOV
Ryssland 1863-1934
Mjölk till kattungarna
Signerad och daterad 1895. Olja på duk, 74 x 62,5 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.

Gorokhov studied under Vladmir Makovsky and is admired for his highly accomplished genre paintings, often including children and animals, such as in the offered lot. As well as the main subject, Gorokhov had a fine eye for details, such as the still life of everyday objects in the half light behind the child´s head, and the discarded bobbin on the floor.

Auktionsnummer:

3234

Datum:

2016-12-08