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Lot Essay
On the advice of A. V. Lunacharsky, the People's Commissar for Education, Korovin and his family moved to Paris in 1923. Due to ill-health and financial concerns, Korovin became tied to the French capital and was never to return to Russia.
Unable to reconcile himself to the term 'emigré', Korovin yearned for his homeland up until his death in 1939, confessing in his memoirs that '...nowhere has that comfortingly mournful feeling, unusual allure, deep beauty...like a spring evening in Russia'.
The present lot, inscribed with lines taken from Mikhail Lermontov's poem 'The meeting' (Svidani'e, 1841) captures Korovin's nostalgia for the exotic and wild landscapes of Russia immortalised in Lermontov's poetry.
Unable to reconcile himself to the term 'emigré', Korovin yearned for his homeland up until his death in 1939, confessing in his memoirs that '...nowhere has that comfortingly mournful feeling, unusual allure, deep beauty...like a spring evening in Russia'.
The present lot, inscribed with lines taken from Mikhail Lermontov's poem 'The meeting' (Svidani'e, 1841) captures Korovin's nostalgia for the exotic and wild landscapes of Russia immortalised in Lermontov's poetry.