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Lot 28*

Matvei Prokof'evich Ponomarenko
(Ukrainian)
19th century
Commemorative feast at the cemetery in the week of St. Thomas

7 June 2010, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Matvei Prokof'evich Ponomarenko (Ukrainian), 19th century

Commemorative feast at the cemetery in the week of St. Thomas
signed and dated in the form of an inscription on the tombstone in Cyrillic 'Here lies the body of a citizen of Odessa Matvei Ponomarenko/1876'
oil on canvas
54 x 71.5cm (21 1/4 x 28 1/8in).

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PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1980
Purchased from the above by the present owner

Little is known about Matvei Prokofievich Ponomarenko, also known as Matvei Ponomarev. Correspondence between the present owner and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg indicates that in the 1860s, Matvei Ponomarenko was one of the art instructors at the Odessa Art School. The letter also suggests that it was a conceit of the artist to sign and date the painting on the tombstone in the centre of the painting.

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