LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

19.09 in. (48.50 cm.) (height) by 14.37 in. (36.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'Biskra' and dated 1907

Exhibited:

Salon. 1908–1909 , Kadetskii korpus, St Petersburg, January 1909.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Salon. 1908–1909, St Petersburg, 1909, No. 247, listed as Negritenok (Vozhak za Semikryloi). A. Rostislavov, 'Zhivopis Petrova-Vodkina', Apollon, No. 3, 1915, p. 21, listed as Negritenok (Vozhak za Semikryloi). A. Galushkina, K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, Moscow, Gosudatstvennoe izdatelstvo izobrazitelnykh iskusstv–OGIZ, 1936, p. 66, listed as Negritenok (Vozhak za Semikryloi). Exhibition catalogue, N. Barabanova (ed.), Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin. 1878–1939, Leningrad–Moscow, 1966, p. 18, listed as Negritenok. Exhibition catalogue, Russkoe iskusstvo XVIII–nachala XX veka iz chastnykh sobranii Leningrada, Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1988, p. 40, listed as Negritenok

Provenance:

Collection of Alexander Gidoni (1885–1943), an art historian and writer, St Petersburg. Collection of Lev Loitsiansky (1900–1991), a Soviet scientist, Leningrad. Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art, Sotheby’s London, 15 December 1994, lot 66