Klubbat för:

7500 SEK

Utropspris

10 000-12 000 SEK

Beskrivning

S**** SOKOLOV
1800-tal
Bondpojke i röd tröja
Signerad. Olja på duk, 31 x 27 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.

There is a Stepan Semyonovich Sokolov (born 1861) recorded as having studied in the painting class of the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg.

Auktionsnummer:

3235

Datum:

2016-12-08