NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH RERIKH [ROERICH] (1874-1947)

"His Country Series": Higher than the Mountains

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NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH RERIKH [ROERICH]
(1874-1947)
"His Country Series": Higher than the Mountains
unsigned
tempera on canvas
29x46in. (73.5x117cm.)
painted in 1924 in Sikkim, India

Provenance

Roerich Museum, New York
Louis Horch
Baltzar E. Bolling
Then by direct descent

Literature

N. Roerich and others, Roerich Himalaya, (New York, 1926) ill. p. 21
A. Yaremenko, N.K. Roerich, (New York, 1931) ill. p. 87

Exhibited

New York, Roerich Museum, (1930) n. 466 Grand Haven, Michigan, Grand Haven Community Center, Exhibit of Paintings by Nicholas Roerich, (1969)

Lot Essay

"While in Sikkim, Roerich painted a series of works entitled "His Country" (1924), which was inspired as much by the physical grandeur of the Himalayas as by the spiritual mysteries harbored within them. Indeed, for the artist these towering peaks represented the very summit of beauty and spirituality..." J. Decter, Nicholas Roerich, (London, 1989) p. 141

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