A chapel in Nara

Details

Maria Vasil'evna Iakunchikova (1870-1902)
A chapel in Nara
gouache on paper
20 5/8 x 13¾ in. (52.4 x 34.9 cm.)
Executed in 1899

Provenance

The family of the artist.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

Mir iskusstvo, 1904, no. 3, p. 69, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue; Maria Vasil'evna Iakunchikova's posthumous exhibition, Moscow, 1905, p. 12, no. 59.
Exhibition catalogue; Exposition de l'Art Russe, Paris, 1906, p. 137, no. 725.
(Possibly) Exhibition catalogue; L'Exposition de quelques oeuvres de Marie Weber-Iakounchikoff et de Vera Woulff, Geneva, 1910, no. 38.
M. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 1979, pl. 30, for the illustrated lithograph.

Exhibited

Moscow, Maria Vasil'evna Iakunchikova's posthumous exhibition, 1905, no. 59.
Paris, Exposition de l'Art Russe, Salon de'Automne, 1906, no. 725. (Possibly) Geneva, L'Exposition de quelques oeuvres de Marie Weber-Iakounchikoff et de Vera Woulff, Geneva, 1910, no. 38, as 'Chapelle en Russie'.

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Lot Essay

In May 1899, Iakunchikova went to Moscow in order to spend the summer at Nara, the estate of her sister-in-law. At Nara, in addition to the natural beauty of her surroundings, Iakunchikova found the essence of what inspired her about Russia: '...there was a terrace, reminiscient of Vvedenskoe; a dense forest of fir-trees all around, with a solitary dilapidated chapel; by the road there was a holy well with a cross; old churches, little fir trees and young pines.'. (Mir iskusstva, 1904, no. 3, p. 121)

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