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Sergei Ivanovich Lobanov
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description
- Sergei Ivanovich Lobanov
- View of Justinian’s Tower, Feodosia
- signed in Cyrillic and dated 1926 l.r.; further titled and inscribed on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 71 by 116cm, 28 by 45 1/2 in.
Provenance
Acquired in Moscow in the 1980s by the present owner
Catalogue Note
A member of the Bubnovy valet group, Sergei Lobanov had a deep interest in Crimean antiquity, particularly the remnants of Genoese culture of the 8th-9th centuries - the massive ruins of their four-cornered towers along the coast and crumbling fortresses. He would visit the Crimea every year between 1925 and 1936, painting in Feodosia, Bakhchiserai, Sudak and Alupka. In 1925 he painted together with Bogaevsky, whose passion for the ancient fortresses surrounding Feodosia inspired Lobanov. His interpretation of the landscape however, was very different, free from Bogaevsky’s nostalgia, sense of mythology and ‘sweet melancholy’ for the past (see Sergei Lobanov, Palace Editions, 2006). Instead, Lobanov adopts a robust, energetic idiom more reminiscent of Petr Konchalovky’s early work.
The present landscape is from the Feodosia series he painted during the summer of 1926. A smaller oil painting on board which depicts this same view was exhibited in the '4 iskusstva' society exhibition, titled Genoese Tower, Feodosiya, cat.no.125.
We are grateful to Natalia Semenov, author of the 2006 monograph on the artist, for providing additional cataloguing information.
The present landscape is from the Feodosia series he painted during the summer of 1926. A smaller oil painting on board which depicts this same view was exhibited in the '4 iskusstva' society exhibition, titled Genoese Tower, Feodosiya, cat.no.125.
We are grateful to Natalia Semenov, author of the 2006 monograph on the artist, for providing additional cataloguing information.