The town of Tiberiad

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Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942)
The town of Tiberiad
signed, dated and initialled in Cyrillic 'I.B./1924/I. Bilibine' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'I. Bilibine/Paris/La ville de Tiberiade/N36' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour on board
16¾ x 12½ in. (42.5 x 31.8 cm.)

Literature

'Images de Judée - Aquarelles de Bilibine', L' Illustration, 6 November 1926, no. 4366, p. 493, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942) studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Art under Il'ia Repin. As a member of Mir iskusstva (World of Art), his main interests lay in Russian folk tale illustration and stage design. He left Russia in 1920 and pursued an artistic career in Egypt and France, returning to the Soviet Union in 1936 where he continued to illustrate Russian fairytales.
In the summer of 1924 Bilibin travelled through Syria and Palestine where he painted ancient towns and monuments of Biblical and historical importance. The town of Tiberiad, founded circa AD 20 and now known as Tiberias, is situated on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel.

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