the russian sale Wednesday 26 November 2014 The Russian sale Wednesday 26 November 2014 at 14.00 101 New Bond Street, London Bonhams Please see BaCk enquiRies illustraTions 101 New Bond Street of CaTalogue foR london Front cover: lot 30 London W1S 1SR imPortanT noTiCe Daria Chernenko Back cover: lot 145 To BiddeRs +44 (0) 20 7468 8338 Inside front: lot 23 www.bonhams.com [email protected] Inside back: lot 41(detail) Bids Opposite page: lot 11 Viewing +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Cynthia Coleman Sparke london +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7468 8357 TO Submit A claim for Saturday 22 November To bid via the internet please [email protected] ReFund of VAT, HMRC 11.00 to 15.00 visit www.bonhams.com Require lots to Be Sunday 23 November Ksenija Krapivina exporteD from the EU 11.00 to 15.00 Please provide details of the lots +44 (0) 207 468 8312 within strict DeadlineS. Monday 24 November on which you wish to place bids [email protected] For lots on which Import 9.00 to 16.30 at least 24 hours prior to the VAT has BeeN chargeD Tuesday 25 November sale. Maryna Nekliudova (markeD in the catalogue 9.00 to 16.30 +44 (0) 207 468 8312 with A *) lots Must Be Wednesday 26 November New bidders must also provide [email protected] exporteD within 30 days 9.00 to 11.00 proof of identity when submitting of Bonhams’ ReCeipt of bids. Failure to do this may Jonathan Horwich payment and within 3 CusTomeR serviCes result Global Director, Picture Sales months of the sale date. & PaymenTs in your bids not being +44 (0) 20 7468 8280 For all otheR lots export Monday to Friday 8.30 to 18.00 processed. [email protected] Must take place within 3 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 months of the sale date. Bidding by telephone will only new yoRk be accepted on a lot with a Yelena Harbick IMPoRTANT INFORMATION lower estimate in excess of +1 212 644 9136 In February 2014 the United £1000. [email protected] States Government announced the intention to liVe online Bidding is Jenny Lyubomudrova ban the import of any ivory aVailaBle foR This sale + 1 917 2061628 into the USA. Lots Please email jenny.lyubomudrova@bonhams. containing ivory are [email protected] com indicated by the symbol Ф with “Live bidding” in the subject printed beside the Lot line 48 hours before the auction Russia number in this catalogue. to register for this service. mosCow Anastasia Vinokurova sale numBeR: 21518 +7 964 562 3845 anastasia.vinokurova@bonhams. CaTalogue: £25 com St. PeTeRsBuRg Marina Jacobson +7 921 555 2302 marina.jacobson@bonhams. com www.bonhams.com/russian [email protected] Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Iain Rushbrook, Matthew Girling Global CEO, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Global CEO, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Sophie Law, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. 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Please refer to the information in section 7 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 1 RiChaRd kaRloViCh ZommeR (Russian, 1866-1939) Stopping for a prayer signed in Cyrillic (lower right) oil on canvas 50.5 x 89cm (19 7/8 x 35 1/16in). £20,000 - 25,000 US$32,000 - 40,000 €25,000 - 31,000 8 | BonhamS 2 Frantz alexeeViCh RouBaud (Russian, 1856-1928) Riding Cossacks signed in Latin (lower right) oil on canvas 83 x 59cm (32 11/16 x 23 1/4in). £18,000 - 20,000 US$29,000 - 32,000 €23,000 - 25,000 THe Russian Sale | 9 3 VictoR StePanoViCh PodgouRsky (Russian, 1893-1969) In 1920 Podgoursky emigrated to China and settled in the city of Chinese tea break Shanghai. Before long he began to focus on making paintings that signed in Latin (lower right) reflected the every day life and nature of China. In 1925 the Museum oil on canvas of Genoa purchased four of his oil paintings from the cycle ‘Types 90 x 64.5cm (35 7/16 x 25 3/8in). of Chinese Peasants’. In 1926, in French town college of Shanghai, he held a personal exhibition of his works, most of which were £10,000 - 12,000 subsequently sold. He also regularly participated in the exhibitions of US$16,000 - 19,000 Russian expatriate artists living in Shanghai. In the 1930s, Shanghai €13,000 - 15,000 became the one-of-a-kind centre of Russian artistic emigration. The city witnessed a founding of the Russian Dramatic Theatre and Provenance later, in 1936, the Russian Ballet School. The Shanghai Municipal Family of a German diplomat Orchestra and the Opera group were primarily staffed with Russian Property of a private european collection from 1930. émigrés. 10 | BonhamS 4* RiChaRd kaRloViCh ZommeR (Russian, 1866-1939) Central Asian scene signed in Cyrillic (lower right) oil on composite board 20.8 x 33.4cm (8 3/16 x 13 1/8in).