Lot Essay
The present work was commissioned by Héliodore Fortin, author of Bible of Spirits for his Chapelle du Résurrectoire in Metz, France.
Taurus
Details
Nikolai Kalmakoff (1873-1955)
Taurus
signed with artist's monogram and dated '1927' (lower left)
oil on board
20½ x 20½ in. (54.9 x 54.9 cm.)
Taurus
signed with artist's monogram and dated '1927' (lower left)
oil on board
20½ x 20½ in. (54.9 x 54.9 cm.)
Provenance
Carl Laszlo, Basel.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Kalmakoff l'ange de l'abîme (1873-1955) et les peintres du Mir Iskousstva, Paris, Musée de la Seita, 26 March-17 May 1986, p. 95, no. 52, as 'Taurean'.
J. Bowlt & I. Balybina, Nikolai Kalmakov i labirint dekadentstva, Moscow, 2008, illustrated p. 58.
J. Bowlt & I. Balybina, Nikolai Kalmakov i labirint dekadentstva, Moscow, 2008, illustrated p. 58.
Exhibited
Paris, Musée de la Seita, Kalmakoff l'ange de la abîme (1873-1955) et les peintres du Mir Iskousstva, 26 March-17 May 1986, no. 52.
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Ksenya Malina
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