NIKOLAI BOGDANOV-BELSKY (1868-1945)
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Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945)

Lilacs

Details
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945)
Lilacs
signed 'N. Bogdanoff-Belsky' (lower right)
oil on canvas
17¼ x 21 in. (43.8 x 53.3 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Alexander Kopelovich (1915-1990), Riga.
Property from a Private European Collection, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 2010, lot 300.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Professor N. Bogdanov-Belsky: 5th Solo Exhibition, Riga, 1936, no. 18.
Exhibited
Riga, Riga National Art Museum, Professor N. Bogdanov-Belsky: 5th Solo Exhibition, 1936, no. 18.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Alexander Kopelovich moved to Latvia with his mother and step-father in 1925. From 1925-1931 he studied in the studio of Bogdanov-Belsky's great friend, Sergei Vinogradov. An artist as well as a collector, Kopelovich's works and part of his collection were exhibited in Moscow in 1990.

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