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. 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[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.