LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on board laid on canvas
Size Notes:
102 by 70cm, 40¼ by 27.5in.
Markings:
signed in Cyrillic l.l.
Exhibited:
Probably, Moscow, Museum of Artistic Culture, Pervaya vystavka Obshchestva stankovistov (OST), May 1925; Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum, Werke aus der Sammlung Costakis, Russische Avantgarde 1910-1930, September-October 1977, no.48 ; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection, 1981, no.99
Literature:
Exhibition catalogue OST (Obshchestva stankovistov): katalog pervoi vystavki, Moscow, 1925, pp.5-6, no.99-101, listed as Works According to the Light-Colour Principle; Exhibition catalogue Werke aus der Sammlung Costakis: Russische Avantgarde 1910-1930, Düsseldorf, 1977, p.40, no.48 listed; Exhibition catalogue Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection, New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1981, p.136, no.99 illustrated b/w and listed ; A.Z. Rudenstine, The George Costakis Collection: Russian Avant-Garde Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981, p.160, no.195 illustrated; p.58 visible in the photograph of Costakis's Moscow apartment; I.V. Kliun, Moi put' v iskusstve. Vospominaniya, stat'i, dnevniki, Moscow: RA, 1999, no.210, p.341 illustrated b/w, p.542 listed
Provenance:
George Costakis, Moscow and Athens, acquired directly from the artist's daughter Serafima; Sotheby's London, <em>Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture Part I</em>, 6 December 1983, lot 49; Acquired at the above sale by the present owner