LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

31.50 in. (80.00 cm.) (height) by 25.75 in. (65.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram and dated '1928' (lower left), further signed with monogram (on the envelope) and inscribed in Russian '13-14. 27/IX Kokt.[ebel]' (lower right

Condition:

inverted)

Exhibited:

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The Twenty-Seventh International Exhibition of Paintings at the Carnegie Institute, 18 October-9 December 1928, no. 285 (labels on the stretcher); travelling exhibition, visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art, 7 January-18 February 1929 and the Art Institute of Chicago, 11 March 1929-22 April 1929. Venice, XVIII Biennale, 28 April-28 October 1932, no. 85 (labels on the stretcher).

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, The Twenty-Seventh International Exhibition of Paintings at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1928, listed no. 285 as ‘Still life’. Exhibition catalogue, XVIII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, 1932, listed p. 271, no. 85. M. Breuning, ‘The Art Season. The Carnegie International Proves to be an extremely intersting event-News of Local Shows’, New York Evening Post, 25 October 1930. Unpublished archive ‘Fondo Scheiwiller’, Centro Apice Università degli Studi di Milano, A letter to from Boris Ternovets to Giovanni Scheiwiller from 14 August 1932, Moscow. K. Kravchenko, ‘Vynuzhdennye priznaniia. Sovetskie khudozhniki na XVIII mezhdunarodnoi vystavke v Venetsii [Forced confessions. Soviet artists at the XVIII International Exhibition in Venice]’, Iskusstvo [Art], Moscow, 1933, visible in a photograph of the Soviet Pavilion p. [237].

Provenance:

A gift from Boris Ternovets (1884-1941) to Giovanni Scheiwiller (1889-1965) circa 1932. By descent to the present owners.