Lot 67
  • 67

KONSTANTIN FEDOROVICH YUON | First Day of Easter

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon
  • First Day of Easter
  • signed in Cyrillic l.l.; further bearing two Soviet exhibition labels on the backing board
  • watercolour heightened with white over pencil on paper
  • image size: 26.5 by 23.5cm, 10 1/2 by 9 1/4 in.
  • Executed in 1915

Provenance

V.Ya. Andreev
N.N. Blokhin

Exhibited

Moscow, Central House of Artists, Sovetskie khudozhniki starshego pokoleniya, June 1958

Literature

Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon, Stoletie so dnya rozhdeniya, 1875-1975, Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1976, p.87 listed under works from 1915
Yu.Osmolovsky, Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon, Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1982, p.227 listed under works from 1915

Condition

The sheet is slightly discoloured. There is a layer of light surface dirt and a few minor spots of foxing in places. Mounted and held in a simple gold frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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