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Lot 37*

Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
(Russian, 1874-1947)
Monhegan, Maine ('Hope')
unframed

4 June 2014, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £81,700 inc. premium

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Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947)

Monhegan, Maine ('Hope')
no. 9 from the 'Ocean' series of 15 paintings completed in 1922
stretcher inscribed in Cyrillic by the artist with the title and numbered
tempera on canvas
55 1/2 x 84cm (21 5/8 x 33 1/16in).
unframed

Footnotes

Provenance
Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, 1923-1935
Collection of Nettie & Louis Horch, 1935
Acquired from the above by a private American collector, mid 1970s
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature
Frances R. Grant, et al. Roerich, Himalaya, A Monograph, Brentano's Publishers, New York, 1926, p. 204, nos. 181-195
Roerich Museum Catalogue, Eighth Edition, 1930, p. 17, no. 191

We are grateful to Mr. Gvido Trepša, Senior Researcher at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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