Lot 158: * TERPSIKHOROV, NIKOLAI (1890-1960), Tree Stumps, signed, also further signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated 1953 on the reverse.

* TERPSIKHOROV, NIKOLAI (1890-1960), Tree Stumps, signed, also further signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated 1953 on the reverse, Oil on canvas, 67 by 93 cm.
Provenance: Acquired directly from Natalia Terpsikhorova, the artist’s daughter, by the present owner in Moscow in the late 1990s.
Important private collection, USA.

Authenticity certificate from Natalia Terpsikhorova.

Exhibited: Nikolai Terpsikhorov, Master Artist of Mother Russia , Springville Museum of Art, Springville, 13 September-16 October 2008.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Nikolai Terpsikhorov, Master Artist of Mother Russia , Springville, Springville Museum of Art, 2008, p. 93, pl. LXXIV, illustrated; p. 101, listed as New Life Begins.