NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH RERIKH [ROERICH] (1874-1947)

Ocean Series: Strength

Details

NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH RERIKH [ROERICH] (1874-1947)
Ocean Series: Strength
signed with monogram (lower left)
tempera on board
20x30in. (50.8x76cm.)
painted in 1922 on Monhegan Island, Maine

Provenance

Roerich Museum, New York Louis and Nettie Horch
Charles Posusta
Aquarian Educational Group, Sedona Arizona

Literature

Roerich Corona Mundi International Art Center,(New York, 1924), ill. Roerich Museum Catalogue, (New York, 1930), p. 17, n. 185 Decter, J. Nicholas Roerich: The Life and Art of a Russian Master, (London, 1989), p. 116, ill. (with the incorrect measurements)

Exhibited

Roerich Museum, New York, 1930, n. 185

Sale room notice

Please note the correct medium is pastels on paper laid onto board.

Lot Essay

The above canvas "aptly titled Strength, depicts a cliff jutting out into the ocean. The shape of the cliff distinctly resembles the profile of a long-nosed, defiant-jawed stone giant, his eye veiled by a long, thin cloud and his beard formed by the rocks against which the surf crashes". (Decter, J. Nicholas Roerich: The Life and Art of a Russian Master, (London, 1989), p. 116).

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

See footnote for lot 45.

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