La montée

Details

Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962)
La montée
signed with initials 'N. G.' (upper right); further signed, inscribed with title and further inscribed 'N. Gontcharova/A Madame Anthea Alléy [sic]/avec amitiée:/Nathalie Gontcharova' (on the reverse)
oil on board
23¼ x 17¼ in. (58.7 x 43.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1954

Provenance

Gift from the artist to Anthea Alley between 1955 and 1962.
Acquired from the above by Annely Juda Fine Art, London.
Acquired from the above by B. C. Holland Gallery in 1984, London.
Acquired by the present owner in 1995.

Exhibited

London, Abstraction 1910-1940, Annely Juda Fine Art, 1 July-27 September 1980, ex. cat.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Anthea Oswell married Ronald Alley, a curator at the Tate and a friend of Goncharova's, in 1955. As Goncharova died in 1962 and, given the inscription on the reverse by the artist, it follows that this work must have been given to Anthea Alley between 1955 and 1962.

The work relates closely to a smaller painting from the Mizne-Blumental Collection in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.

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