Lower than the Depths, from the series His Country

Details

Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh [Roerich] (1874-1947)
Lower than the Depths, from the series His Country
tempera on canvas
35 x 46 in. (88.9 x 116.8 cm.)
Painted in 1924

Provenance

The Roerich Museum, New York, 1924.
Louis and Nettie Horch, 1935.
Balthazar E. Bolling, 1951.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

N. K. Roerich, List of Paintings 1917-1924, listed in Russian as 'The Depths. Series His country/1924/Nr. 7'.
N. K. Roerich et. al., Roerich, Himalaya, New York, 1926, pp. 185 - 200, illustrated p. 34.
The Roerich Museum Catalogue, Eighth edition, New York, 1930, no. 467.

Lot Essay

'While in Sikkim, Roerich painted a series of works entitled "His Country" (1924), which was inspired as much by the physical grandeur of the Himalayas as by the spiritual mysteries harbored within them. Indeed, for the artist these towering peaks represented the very summit of beauty and spirituality' (J. Decter, Nicholas Roerich, London, 1989, p. 141).

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