Rufin Sudkovskii

Lot 45: Rufin Sudkovskii (1850-1885)

Name: Rufin Sudkovskii (1850-1885)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: f2defaa527

Est: £1,000,000 GBP - £1,500,000 GBP

Christie'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 28, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Rufin Sudkovskii (1850-1885)
A storm near Odessa
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'R. Sudkovskii 1881' (lower right)
oil on canvas
71¼ x 98 7/8 in. (181 x 251 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Rufin Sudkovskii

Exhibited

St Petersburg, Exhibition of the works of Rufim Sudkovsky and Yuli Klever, 1882.

Literature

'Nashi khudozhestevennie dela' ['Our artistic matters'], Novoe
vremia, [A New Time], 22 February 1882.
F. I. Bulgakov, Al'bom zhivopisi. Kartini i etyudi akademika R.D. Sudkovskogo [Album of paintings. Paintings and studies by the Academician R. D. Sudkovsky], St Petersburg, 1897, illustrated, listed no. 19.

Provenance

Paul Pavlovich Demidoff, 2nd Prince of San Donato (1839-1885).

Notes

'The main principle guiding Sudkovskii's work was realism, painting the waves of the sea with truth and subsequently creating a powerful impression with an association of poetry.'

Rufin Sudkovskii (1850-1885)
A storm near Odessa
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'R. Sudkovskii 1881' (lower right)
oil on canvas
71¼ x 98 7/8 in. (181 x 251 cm.)

Auction Details

Russian Art

Christie's

November 28, 2011, 12:00 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK

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