Rat à Gueule d'Ors from the series of panels for La Chapelle Fortin

Details

Nikolai Konstantinovich Kalmakov (1873-1955)
Rat à Gueule d'Ors from the series of panels for La Chapelle Fortin
signed with a device and dated '1927' (lower left)
oil on panel
21¾ x 21 5/8 in. (55.2 x 55 cm.)

Provenance

with Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, London, 1988.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Kalmakoff, L'Ange de l'Abîme 1873-1955 et les peinture du Mir Iskousstva, Paris, Musée-galerie de la Seita, 1986, p. 71, no. 30, illustrated.

Exhibited

Paris, Musée-galerie de la Seita, Kalmakoff, L'Ange de l'Abîme 1873-1955 et les peintures du Mir Iskousstva, 26 March - 17 May 1986, no. 31.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

In the late 1920s, Héliodore Fortin (1889-1934), the author of 'La Bible des Esprits Libres', commissioned Kalmakov to produce a series of twenty-four panels for the interior of Fortin's Chapel of the Resurrected. This esoteric series, depicting the evolution of humanity, was rediscovered in the town of Metz in 1964.

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