LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and metal on wood relief

Measurements:

31.50 in. (80.00 cm.) (height) by 17.32 in. (44.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bearing Galerie Bargera and Guggenheim labels on the backing board

Exhibited:

Cologne, Galerie Bargera, Russische Avantgarde 1910-1930, 1978, no.13; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Planar Dimension: Europe, 1912-1932, 9 March - 6 May 1979, no.88

Literature:

Z.Fogel, Vasily Ermilov, Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1975, p.84 illustrated b/w; Exhibition catalogue Russische Avantgarde 1910-1930, Cologne: Galerie Bargera, 1978, p.123, no.13 listed; Exhibition catalogue The Planar Dimension: Europe, 1912-1932, New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1979, p.124, no.88 illustrated b/w; W.Zimmer, 'When the Plane Reigned', review of 'The Planar Dimension: Europe 1912-1932', The Soho Weekly News, 12 April 1979, illustrated; M.Mudrak, The New Generation and Artistic Modernism in the Ukraine, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p.44, figure 2-1 illustrated b/w; Exhibition catalogue Vasily Ermilov , Moscow, 2011, p.46 illustrated b/w as 'location unknown'

Provenance:

Sotheby's London, Twentieth Century Russian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours 1900-1930, 29 March 1973, lot 60; Galerie Bargera, Cologne; Acquired from the above by the father of the present owners