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

20 March 2024, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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

Daydreamer
indistinctly signed and dated '1926' (lower left)
oil on canvas
78 x 68cm (30 11/16 x 26 3/4in).
unframed

Executed in 1926

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, USA.

Literature
Perezvony, Riga, N26 (18), 1926, p. 834, illustrated.


The present lot is offered with an official expertise from the Grabar Art Conservation Centre, dated 24 May, 2006.

Nikolai Bogdanov-Bel'sky's œuvre can be said to be primarily preoccupied with the theme of childhood. The artist painted the lives 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 (see for example At the doors of the school, 1897, Russian Museum) to his plein air works which depict both the joyful and everyday pursuits of youth. As the artist himself noted, 'I have always had children alongside me, I have devoted, and indeed still devote my life to them.'

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