LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

68.50 in. (174.00 cm.) (height) by 56.50 in. (143.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic 'PKonchalovsky' (lower right); further signed, inscribed and dated '732 1928/P. Kontchalovsky/Acteur japonais Kivarasaki' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Leningrad, State Russian Museum, 6th Solo exhibition of works by P. P. Konchalovsky, 1929, no. 184. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, International exhibition of art, 1929. Moscow, 7th Solo exhibition of works by the Honoured artist P. P. Konchalovsky, 1930. Leningrad, Artists of RSFSR over 15 years, 1932. San Francisco, International exhibition of art, 1934. Moscow, 16th Solo exhibition of works by the People's artist of RSFSR, the member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR P. P. Konchalovsky, 1956. Leningrad, 17th Solo exhibition of works by the Peoples artist of RSFSR, the member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR P. P. Konchalovsky, 1956.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, 6th Solo exhibition of works by P.P. Konchalovsky, Leningrad, 1929, illustrated p. 11. Iskusstvo, no. 5-6, 1929, illustrated p. 89. V. A. Nikolsky, Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Moscow, 1936, p. 147. Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky. Album, Moscow, 1958 illustrated. M.L.Neiman, Presentations at the Institute of History of Art, State Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1960, illustrated p. 38. ed. K. V. Frolova, Konchalovsky. Khudozhestvennoe nasledie, Moscow, 1964, pp. 56, 119, fig. 78. Unknown Konchalovsky, Moscow, 2002, pp. 121 illustrated, 119, 124, fig. 67, 288, 292.

Provenance:

By direct descent in the artist's family to the present owner.