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The Russian Sale New Bond Street, London | 5 June 2019 The Russian Sale New Bond Street, London | 5 June 2019 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Registered No. 4326560 Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Matthew Girling CEO, Asaph Hyman, Caroline Oliphant, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Edward Wilkinson, Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Jonathan Fairhurst, Leslie Wright, Rupert Banner, Simon Cottle. The Russian Sale New Bond Street, London | Wednesday 5 June 2019 at 3pm BONHAMS BIDS ENQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 101 New Bond Street +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 London Front cover: Lot 22 London W1S 1SR +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Daria Khristova Back cover: Lots 99 - 110 To bid via the internet please visit +44 (0) 20 7468 8338 Inside front: Lot 135 VIEWING www.bonhams.com [email protected] Inside back: Lot 17 Tuesday 28 May Opposite page: Lot 139 9am to 4.30pm Please provide details of the Cynthia Coleman Sparke Wednesday 29 May lots on which you wish to place +44 (0) 20 7468 8357 To submit a claim for refund of 9am to 4.30pm bids at least 24 hours prior to [email protected] VAT, HMRC require lots to be Thursday 30 May the sale. exported from the EU within strict 9am to 4.30pm Sophie Law deadlines. For lots on which Friday 31 May New bidders must also provide +44 (0) 207 468 8334 Import VAT has been charged 9am to 4.30pm proof of identity when submitting [email protected] (marked in the catalogue with a *) Sunday 2 June bids. Failure to do this may result lots must be exported within 30 11am to 3.00pm in your bids not being processed. Stefania Sorrentino days of Bonhams’ receipt of pay- Monday 3 June +44 (0) 20 7468 8212 ment and within 3 months of the 9am to 4.30pm Bidding by telephone will only be stefania.sorrentino@ sale date. For all other lots export Tuesday 4 June accepted on a lot with a lower bonhams.com must take place within 3 months 9am to 4.30pm estimate in excess of £1000. of the sale date. Wednesday 5 June New York 9am to 1pm Live online bidding is Yelena Harbick REGISTRATION available for this sale +1 212 644 9136 IMPORTANT NOTICE Please email Please note that all customers, SALE NUMBER [email protected] 25291 [email protected] irrespective of any previous with “Live bidding” in the subject activity with Bonhams, are Moscow CATALOGUE line 48 hours before the auction required to complete the Bidder £25 to register for this service. Kamilla Shushanyants Registration Form in advance of +7 985 991 06 91 the sale. The form can be found Please see back of catalogue kamilla.shushanyants@ at the back of every catalogue for important notice to bidders bonhams.com and on our website at www. bonhams.com and should be www.bonhams.com/russian returned by email or post to the [email protected] specialist department or to the bids department at bids@ CUSTOMER SERVICES bonhams.com & PAYMENTS To bid live online and / or leave Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm internet bids please go to +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 www.bonhams.com/auctions/ 25291 and click on the Register to bid link at the top left of the page. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Registered No. 4326560 Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Matthew Girling CEO, Asaph Hyman, Caroline Oliphant, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Edward Wilkinson, Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Jonathan Fairhurst, Leslie Wright, Rupert Banner, Simon Cottle. Sale Information BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & PAYMENT IN ADVANCE +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE (Telephone to ascertain +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax INFORMATION amount due) To bid via the internet please visit by: cash, cheque with banker’s www.bonhams.com All sold lots will remain in the card, credit or debit card. Collections room at Bonhams PAYMENTS New Bond Street free for a period PAYMENT AT TIME OF Buyers of not less than 14 calendar days COLLECTION BY: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 from the sale date Wednesday 5 cash, cheque with banker’s card, +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax June 2019 until 5.30pm Tuesday 18 credit or debit card June 2019. Lots not collected by Sellers this time will be returned to the Payment of sale proceeds department storage charges may +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 apply. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax VAT VALUATIONS, TAXATION Will be applied at the current rate & HERITAGE on all above charges +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax The following symbol is [email protected] used to denote that VAT is due on the hammer price CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS and buyer’s premium To obtain any Bonhams catalogue or to take out † VAT 20% on hammer price an annual subscription: and buyer’s premium Subscriptions Department +44 (0) 1666 502200 * VAT on imported items at +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax a preferential rate of 5% on [email protected] hammer price and the prevailing rate on buyer’s premium SHIPPING For information and estimates Y These lots are subject to on domestic and international CITES regulations, please shipping as well as export read the information in the licenses please contact Alban back of the catalogue. Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 [email protected] 1 ALEKSEI ILYCH KRAVCHENKO (1889-1940) A Russian church in autumn signed in Cyrillic (lower middle) tempera and pencil on cardboard 46 x 69.5cm (18 1/8 x 27 3/8in). £8,000 - 10,000 US$10,000 - 13,000 €9,200 - 12,000 The present lot is offered with a certificate of authenticity from E. Nesterova, A. Benois Expertise Centre, 2018. 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 3 2 3* NIKOLAI EGOROVICH SVERCHKOV (1817-1898) KONSTANTIN YAKOVLEVICH KRYZHITSKY (1858-1911) A winter’s day in the village Meadow in the woods signed in Cyrillic (lower left) signed in Cyrillic (lower right); stretcher inscribed in Russian with the oil on canvas title 40 x 69cm (15 3/4 x 27 3/16in). 32 x 48.5cm (12 1/2 x 19in). £35,000 - 45,000 £6,000 - 8,000 US$45,000 - 58,000 US$7,800 - 10,000 €40,000 - 52,000 €6,900 - 9,200 Provenance Provenance Private collection, UK Private American collection 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 ALEXANDER MIKHAILOVICH LEONTOVSKY (1865-1928) Portrait of an Officer of the Life Guard Horse Regiment with order of St. Anne with swords signed in Latin (lower right) oil on canvas 73.4 x 60cm (28 7/8 x 23 5/8in). £3,000 - 4,000 US$3,900 - 5,200 €3,500 - 4,600 4 5 PIOTR YAKOVLEVICH OVCHINNIKOV (1881-1915) The billiard room in the Imperial Palace in Belovezha Forest signed in Cyrillic and titled ‘in Puscha’ (lower right) watercolour on paper 42.3 x 54.4cm (16 5/8 x 21 7/16in). £1,500 - 2,000 US$1,900 - 2,600 €1,700 - 2,300 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* IVAN PAVLOVICH POKHITONOV (1850-1923) ‘Autour de l’étang de Matrionovka’, 1882 signed and dated ‘I Pokitonow 82’ (lower right) oil on panel 18 x 26cm (7 1/16 x 10 1/4in). £50,000 - 70,000 US$65,000 - 91,000 €58,000 - 81,000 Provenance Private collection, Canada The offered lot has been inspected in person by Olivier Bertrand, expert on Pokhitonov and author of volume 1 of the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s works. M. Bertrand also reviewed an X-ray of the offered lot and has confirmed its authenticity. The present lot is to be sold with a certificate, dated 21st March 2019, confirming its inclusion in the 2nd volume of the artist’s catalogue raisonné, presently being prepared by M. Bertrand. 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. THE RUSSIAN SALE | 9 7 MIKHAIL MARKIANOVITCH GUERMACHEFF (1867-1930) ‘A woodland pool’ signed in Latin (lower right) oil on canvas 46 x 55.3cm (18 1/8 x 21 3/4in). £3,000 - 4,000 US$3,900 - 5,200 €3,500 - 4,600 Provenance The Reid Gallery Ltd, Guildford, Surrey Purchased from the above in 1971 Gifted by the purchaser (a close relation of the present owner) to a private English collection 7 8 SERGEY EVGRAFOVICH LEDNEV-SCHUKIN (1875-1961) Winter landscape signed in Cyrillic (lower right) oil on canvas 50.8 x 60.8cm (20 x 23 15/16in). £2,000 - 3,000 US$2,600 - 3,900 €2,300 - 3,500 Provenance With A La Vieille Russie, Zolotnitskiy (according to label on verso) 8 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 10 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
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