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Amshei Nurenberg
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Amshei Nurenberg
- View of Samarkand
- oil on canvas
- largest: 34.5 by 34.5cm, 13 1/2 by 13 1/3 in.
Catalogue Note
To be sold with three drawings of Samarkand.
A close friend of Alexander Shevchenko and Robert Falk with whom he exhibited in 1924, Amshei Nuremberg was detailed to work on the restoration of historic monuments in Uzbekistan in the early 1920s. A number of his drawings from this trip were illustrated in Samarkand i Tashkent published in Moscow in 1922. One of the so-called ‘Odessan Parisians’ and head of a group of artists in Odessa which became known as the ‘Independents’, he lectured on the Barbizon School, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Picasso at Vkhutemas during the 1920s. His Cézannist approach to Central Asian landscape is displayed beautifully in the four works comprising the present lot.
A close friend of Alexander Shevchenko and Robert Falk with whom he exhibited in 1924, Amshei Nuremberg was detailed to work on the restoration of historic monuments in Uzbekistan in the early 1920s. A number of his drawings from this trip were illustrated in Samarkand i Tashkent published in Moscow in 1922. One of the so-called ‘Odessan Parisians’ and head of a group of artists in Odessa which became known as the ‘Independents’, he lectured on the Barbizon School, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Picasso at Vkhutemas during the 1920s. His Cézannist approach to Central Asian landscape is displayed beautifully in the four works comprising the present lot.