Vasilij Vasil'evic Verescagin

Lot 12: VASILI VASILIEVICH VERESHCHAGIN

Name: VASILI VASILIEVICH VERESHCHAGIN
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 7e39c2b9d4

Est: $3,000,000 USD - $5,000,000 USDSold:

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USNovember 01, 2011

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON TO BENEFIT THE COLLECTION
1842-1904
PEARL MOSQUE AT DELHI, 1876-79
oil on canvas
155 1/2 by 197 in., 395 by 500 cm

Artist or Maker

Vasilij Vasil'evic Verescagin

Exhibited

New York, American Art Galleries, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin,
November-December 1888, no. 61 (traveling exhibition, visiting the Chicago Art Institute, January-March 1889, as well as locations in St. Louis, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston among others)

Literature

V. Vereshchagin, Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin, Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue, New York, 1888, p. 45, no. 61
"Fine Arts: The Verestchagin Exhibition," The Nation, November 22, 1888, p. 424
"Current News in Art," The New York Times, March 11, 1892
A.K. Lebedev, Vasilii Vasilevich Vereshchagin: Zhizn i tvorchestvo, Moscow, 1972, p. 159, illustrated
A.K. Lebedev and A. Solodovnikov, Vasilii Vasilevich Vereshchagin, Leningrad, 1987, pl. 30, illustrated

Provenance

The artist
Sale: American Art Galleries, New York, Vassili Verestchagin Collection sale, November 17-18, 1891, lot 61 (titled The Private Mosque of the Great Moguls in the Palace of Delhi)
Mrs. Roland O. Lincoln, Boston (acquired directly from the above sale)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acquired directly from the above in 1892)

Auction Details

Important Russian Art

Sotheby's

November 01, 2011, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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