LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ink and watercolor, heightened with white, on paper laid down on card

Measurements:

10.47 in. (26.60 cm.) (height) by 8.50 in. (21.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic, indistinctly inscribed and dated 'K. Somov 1928.' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Exposition d'Art Russe Ancien et Moderne, May-June 1928, no. 871 (partial label on the backboard). Copenhagen, Den Frie Udstilling, Russisk Maleriudstilling, 7-20 February 1929, no. 106 (label on the backboard). Belgrade, Velika izlo?ba ruske umetnosti, March 1930, no. 194 (label on the backboard).

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Exposition d'Art Russe Ancien et Moderne, Brussels, 1928, listed p. 80, no. 871, listed as 'Paysanne russe dans un paysage'. Exhibition catalogue, Russisk Maleriudstilling, Copenhagen, 1929, no. 106, listed as 'Landskab med dansende russike Bondekoner'. Exhibition catalogue, Velika izlo?ba ruske umetnosti, Belgrade, 1930, listed p. 24, no. 194, listed as 'Two farmers'. L. Korotkina, Konstantin Andreevich Somov, St Petersburg, 2004, illustrated p. 94, listed pp. 256 and 261 as 'Pastoral scene with two girls'.

Provenance:

with Alexandre Popoff (1880-1964), Paris. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14-15 December 1995, lot 274. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.