LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.65 in. (55.00 cm.) (height) by 29.53 in. (75.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed and dated P. Pokarsievski 1944 (in Cyrillic)

Exhibited:

Moscow Fellowship of Artists (MTX), "Exhibition-sale of Moscow painters, graphics and sculptors", May 1945. Piotr Dmitrievich Pokarsievski is mentioned in contemporary newspapers from Moscow participating in the MTX exhibition, but the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg does not have the catalogue. However, this exhibition catalogue was maybe never printed at this time, just at the end of World War II.

Provenance:

Leo Ranek, agricultural attaché at the Danish Embassy in Moscow 1946-1972.