Russian Pictures
Russian Pictures
Petr Petrovich Sokolov
The Borki Train Disaster
Auction Closed
November 30, 02:40 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Petr Petrovich Sokolov
1821 - 1899
The Borki Train Disaster
signed in Cyrillic and dated 1888 l.r.
gouache, gold paint and pencil on paper laid on canvas
Canvas: 102.5 by 144.5cm, 40¼ by 57in.
Framed: 160 by 202cm, 63 by 79½in.
'Lettres Parisiennes', Journal de Monaco, no.1636, 10 December 1889, mentioned in the text
F.Bulgakov, Nashi khudozhniki, St Petersburg, 1890 (reprinted 2002), p.176 listed as Krushenie tsarskago poezda 17-go oktyabrya 1888 g.
O.Spitsyna, Petr Petrovich Sokolov, Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1953, p.104 listed
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1889;
Probably St Petersburg, 1900;
St Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Russian Art, 12 January – 11 June 1995.