NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH RERIKH [ROERICH] (1874-1947)

Castles of Gessar Khan

Details

NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH RERIKH [ROERICH] (1874-1947)
Castles of Gessar Khan
signed with monogram (lower right) and inscribed in Russian in pencil on the reverse Cas[tles] of Ges[sar] Khan, n. 2, 1928-1929
gouache on board
8½x10½in. (21x27cm.)
painted in Tibet in 1928

Provenance

Roerich Museum, New York
Louis and Nettie Horch
Sponder Collection

Literature

New York, Roerich Museum, (1930), n. 917-926

Lot Essay

This study is one of ten, all bearing the same title. In the catalogue of the Roerich Museum (8th edition), those studies are numbered 917-926.

We are grateful to Daniel Entin, director of the Roerich Museum in New York and Gvido Trepsa for providing information on this lot.

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