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The Russian Sale New Bond Street, London I 25 November 2020 The Russian Sale New Bond Street, London I 25 November 2020 The Russian Sale New Bond Street, London | Wednesday 25 November 2020 at 3pm BONHAMS BIDS ENQUIRIES LLUSTRATIONS 101 New Bond Street +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 London Front cover: Lot 24 London W1S 1SR To bid via the internet please Daria Khristova Back cover: Lot 111 visit www.bonhams.com +44 (0) 20 7468 8338 Inside front: Lot 37 VIEWING [email protected] Inside back: Lot 25 Sunday 22 November Please provide details of the Opposite page: Lot 14 11am - 3pm lots on which you wish to place bids Sophie Law at least 24 hours prior to the sale. To submit a claim for refund of Monday 23 November +44 (0) 20 7468 8334 VAT, HMRC require lots to be 10am - 5pm [email protected] New bidders must also provide exported from the EU within strict Tuesday 24 November proof of identity when submitting Jacqueline Senior deadlines. For lots on which Import 10am - 5pm bids. Failure to do this may result +44 (0) 20 7468 8397 VAT has been charged (marked in Wednesday 25 November in your bids not being processed. [email protected] the catalogue with a ) lots must 10am - 12pm be exported within 30* days of Bidding by telephone will only be New York Bonhams’ receipt of payment and Viewing by appointment accepted on a lot with a lower Yelena Harbick within 3 months of the sale date. For recommended. Please note estimate in excess of £1,000. +1 212 644 9136 all other lots export must take place that Bonhams observe social [email protected] within 3 months of the sale date. distancing guidelines in our Live online bidding is salerooms and we ask that available for this sale Moscow REGISTRATION all clients wear masks or face Please email [email protected] Kamilla Shushanyants IMPORTANT NOTICE coverings when attending with “Live bidding” in the subject +7 985 991 06 91 Please note that all customers, our viewings or auctions. line 48 hours before the auction kamilla.shushanyants@ irrespective of any previous activity to register for this service. bonhams.com with Bonhams, are required to SALE NUMBER complete the Bidder Registration 26257 Please see back of catalogue www.bonhams.com/russian Form in advance of the sale. The for important notice to bidders [email protected] form can be found at the back of CATALOGUE every catalogue and on our website £25.00 CUSTOMER SERVICES at www.bonhams.com and should & PAYMENTS be returned by email or post to the Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm specialist department or to the bids +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 department at [email protected] To bid live online and / or leave internet bids please go to www.bonhams.com/auctions/26257 and click on the Register to bid link at the top left of the page. Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Sale Information BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION PAYMENT IN ADVANCE +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 & STORAGE AFTER (Telephone to ascertain To bid via the internet please visit SALE INFORMATION amount due) www.bonhams.com by: cash, cheque with banker’s All sold lots will remain in the card, credit or debit card. PAYMENTS Collections room at Bonhams Buyers New Bond Street free of charge PAYMENT AT TIME OF +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Until 5.30pm Monday 1 December 2020. COLLECTION BY: Lots not collected by this time will be cash, cheque with banker’s card, Sellers returned to the department storage credit or debit card Payment of sale proceeds charges may apply. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 VAT VALUATIONS, TAXATION The following symbols are used & HERITAGE to denote that VAT is due on +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 the hammer price and buyer’s +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax premium. [email protected] † VAT 20% on hammer price and CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS buyer’s premium To obtain any Bonhams catalogue or to take out * VAT on imported items at an annual subscription: a preferential rate of 5% on Subscriptions Department hammer price and the prevailing +44 (0) 1666 502200 rate on buyer’s premium +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax Y These lots are subject to [email protected] CITES regulations, please read the information in the back of SHIPPING the catalogue. For information and estimates on domestic and international Payment shipping as well as export All charges due to Cadogan licenses please contact Alban Tate must be paid by the time of Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 collection from their warehouse. [email protected] Payment in Advance (Telephone to ascertain amount due) by: cash, credit or debit card Payment at time of collection by: Cash, credit or debit card (9 of 24) 1 IVAN IVANOVICH SHISHKIN (1832-1898) OFORTY 1885-1886 twenty-four etched plates from the series of twenty-five, published in St. Petersburg by A.E. Pal’chikov, 1886. Folio, printed on silk laid on card in various sizes, in mounts, in the original cloth portfolio, with title reproduced in silk on upper cover chromolithograph size of largest: 35 x 21 cm (13 3/4 x 8 1/4 in). (24) £8,000 - 10,000 €8,800 - 11,000 US$10,000 - 13,000 Provenance Private collection, Milan For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE RUSSIAN SALE | 5 2 RUSSIAN SCHOOL Portrait of Alexander III oil on canvas 97 x 71.2cm (38 3/16 x 28 1/16in). £6,000 - 8,000 €6,600 - 8,800 US$7,800 - 10,000 2 3 ALEKSANDER KOLB (1819-1887) Interior of the Crimson study of Empress Maria, Winter Palace, circa 1869 signed in Cyrillic (lower right) watercolour on paper 35.2 x 50cm (13 7/8 x 19 11/16in). unframed £2,000 - 4,000 €2,200 - 4,400 US$2,600 - 5,200 Provenance Acquired by the father of the present owner in Rome in 1980s Thence by descent 3 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 6 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 4 ALEKSANDER KOLB (1819-1887) Palace interior signed in Cyrillic (lower right) watercolour on paper 35.2 x 50cm (13 7/8 x 19 11/16in). unframed £2,000 - 4,000 €2,200 - 4,400 US$2,600 - 5,200 Provenance Acquired by the father of the present owner in Rome in 1980s Thence by descent 4 5 ALEKSANDER KOLB (1819-1887) Palace interior signed in Cyrillic (lower right) watercolour on paper 35.2 x 50cm (13 7/8 x 19 11/16in). unframed £2,000 - 4,000 €2,200 - 4,400 US$2,600 - 5,200 Provenance Acquired by the father of the present owner in Rome in 1980s Thence by descent 5 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE RUSSIAN SALE | 7 6 NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH KARAZIN (1842-1908) Winter scene signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘88’ (lower right) gouache and whitewash on card 21 x 32.5cm (8 1/4 x 12 13/16in). £2,000 - 3,000 €2,200 - 3,300 US$2,600 - 3,900 6 7 NIKOLAI EFIMOVICH KUZNETSOV (1879-1970) Bitz Village, 1922 signed in Cyrillic (lower right) oil on board 25 x 34cm (9 13/16 x 13 3/8in). £3,000 - 4,000 €3,300 - 4,400 US$3,900 - 5,200 Provenance The family of the artist 7 8 NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH KLODT (1865-1918) ‘Dusk’, 1914 signed in Cyrillic (lower left) oil on board 37.5 x 32cm (14 3/4 x 12 5/8in). £7,000 - 9,000 €7,700 - 9,900 US$9,000 - 12,000 Provenance Private collection, Greece Exhibited Moscow, Moscow Union of Soviet Artists, Exhibition of works by N.A. Klodt, 1940 8 Literature Exhibition catalogue of works by N.A. Klodt, Union of Soviet Artists, Moscow, 1940, listed as Dusk, 1914, no. 79, p. 25 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 8 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 9 * NIKOLAI IVANOVICH KRAVCHENKO (1867-1941) A summer’s day signed in Cyrillic (lower right) oil on cardboard 32.5 x 39.8cm (12 13/16 x 15 11/16in). £2,000 - 3,000 €2,200 - 3,300 US$2,600 - 3,900 Provenance Private collection, Eastern Europe Thence by descent Nikolai Kravchenko, famous for his battle scenes, studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the class of battle painting of Bogdan Willewalde and spent time in Paris working for the Academies Julien and Colarossi. His oeuvre includes illustrations for many important Russian campaigns in the Far East and China. Yet, Kravchenko is not only known as a battle painter but a talented portraitist and landscape artist. The present composition A summer’s day is reminiscent of the authentic Ukrainian landscape and is defined by sensitivity towards the 9 moment and admiration of nature. The soft palette and the contrast of the images of an intimate hut to a seemingly endless road with a sole female figure, - a canonical motive in Russian 19th century painting, - enhance the features of the peaceful stillness of the remote village.
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