Alexander Vladimirovich Makovsky

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Description

Alexander Vladimirovich Makovsky
Leaving for the Hunt
signed in Cyrillic and dated 1915 l.l.
oil on canvas
58.5 by 89cm, 23 by 35in.

Exhibited

St Petersburg, Moscow et al., XLIV Itinerant Exhibition, 1915-1916

Literature

G.Romanov (ed.), The Society of Itinerant Art Exhibitions, 1871-1923, An Encyclopaedia, St Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburg Orkestr, 2003, p.424, no.5-163, illustrated b/w

Catalogue Note

At the 1915-16 Itinerant Exhibition, Alexander Makovsky was the most represented artist with 20 paintings on display. 'The artist has improved in leaps and bounds, not by the day but by the hour,' wrote a contemporary, 'he has experienced a sort of renaissance... and plunged headlong into the beautiful world of ancient Russia' (N.Breshko-Breshkovsky quoted in Zabytie imena: russkaya zhivopis' XIX veka, 2004, p.408).