Nikolai Pavlovich Khristoliubov

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Description

Nikolai Pavlovich Khristoliubov
Mongolian Wind
signed, titled and inscribed in Cyrillic Mongolia and dated 1959 on the reverse
oil on cardboard
49.5 by 70cm, 19 1/2 by 27 1/2 in.

Catalogue Note

A tremendous traveller, Khristoliubov explored the remote reaches of the Soviet Union from the Tajik mountains to the Crimean steppe, as well as making trips further east to Mongolia, Cambodia, Vietnam. The present work was reproduced on a postcard in 1964.