LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on board laid on canvas

Measurements:

27.17 in. (69.00 cm.) (height) by 61.02 in. (155.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic, dated '1912' an inscribed 'Raksha' (lower left); bearing labels of Stirling Fine Art and the Union of Russian Artists (verso)

Exhibited:

St. Petersburg, 9th Exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists, 1912, no.352, Okhota,Possibly London, 1912, Grafton Galleries,Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, organised by Roger Fry, listed as no.144,The Fox Hunt,Scotland, Stirling Fine Art exhibition, 1932, loan from Sir A Kay Muir of Blair Drummond HouseThree of the offered works, The Stag Hunt, The Fox Hunt and The Dusk and The Dawn were at the Grafton Galleries and probably later purchased by a Scottish collector

Literature:

Catalogue of the 9th Exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists, St. Petersburg, 1912, no. 352, p.29,Possibly Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition catalogue, listed as no.144, The Fox Hunt,Stirling Fine Art Exhibition catalogue, n.7, p.25

Provenance:

Sir A Kay Muir (according to the label on verso),Probably purchased from the above in 1950s,Private collection, UK,Thence by descent