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Lot 29

Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Bel'sky
(Russian, 1868-1945)
Mid-day fishing [На послеполуденной рыбалке]

8 June 2016, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£50,000 - £70,000

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Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Bel'sky (Russian, 1868-1945)

Mid-day fishing [На послеполуденной рыбалке]
signed in Cyrillic and dated '1917' (lower left); stretcher with various paper labels and inscribed numbers
oil on canvas
130 x 102cm (51 3/16 x 40 3/16in).

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Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 17 February 1993 (19th Century European Paintings & Sculpture), lot 213
Private collection, Italy

Nikolai Bogdanov-Bel'sky's œuvre can be said to be primarily preoccupied with the theme of childhood. The artist painted the life of young peasant children in different forms throughout his artistic life, from his early works, which exhibit a strong interest in the sociological conditions of rural childhood (At the doors of the school, 1897, Russian Museum) to his plein air works which depict both the joyful and everyday pursuits of youth. The present lot is a very fine example of Bogdanov-Bel'sky's delight in, and affinity for, the young.

I have always had children alongside me, I have devoted, and indeed still devote my life to them.
Nikolai Bogdanov-Bel'sky

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