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Mont Blanc at night
Details
MARIA IAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902)
Mont Blanc at night
with numbers '73' and '130' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 ¾ x 18 in. (55 x 45.8 cm.)
Mont Blanc at night
with numbers '73' and '130' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 ¾ x 18 in. (55 x 45.8 cm.)
Provenance
The family of the artist.
By descent to the present owner.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Posmertnaia Vystavka Marii Vasil'evny Iakunchikovoi [Maria Vasil'evna Iakunchikova's posthumous exhibition], Moscow, 1905, listed p. 10, no. 130 as Mont Blanc noch'iu.
Exhibition catalogue, L'exposition de quelques oeuvres de Marie Weber-Iakounchikoff et de Vera Woulff, Geneva, 1910, listed p. [2], no. 31 as Le Mont Blanc.
K. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 1979, listed p. 170 as Monblan noch'iu.
K. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 2005, illustrated p. 119, listed as Monblan noch'iu.
O. Davydova, 'Broadening Horizons: Maria Yakunchikova and Symbolism', The Tretyakov Magazine, Moscow, 2020, no. 3 (68), special edition, illustrated and listed p. 56 as Mont Blanc at Night.
Exhibition catalogue, L'exposition de quelques oeuvres de Marie Weber-Iakounchikoff et de Vera Woulff, Geneva, 1910, listed p. [2], no. 31 as Le Mont Blanc.
K. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 1979, listed p. 170 as Monblan noch'iu.
K. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 2005, illustrated p. 119, listed as Monblan noch'iu.
O. Davydova, 'Broadening Horizons: Maria Yakunchikova and Symbolism', The Tretyakov Magazine, Moscow, 2020, no. 3 (68), special edition, illustrated and listed p. 56 as Mont Blanc at Night.
Exhibited
Moscow, The insurance company 'Anchor', Posmertnaia Vystavka Marii Vasil'evny Iakunchikovoi [Maria Vasil'evna Iakunchikova's posthumous exhibition], 13 February-27 March, 1905, no. 130.
Geneva, Musée Rath, L'exposition de quelques oeuvres de Marie Weber-Iakounchikoff et de Vera Woulff, 1910, no. 31.
Geneva, Musée Rath, L'exposition de quelques oeuvres de Marie Weber-Iakounchikoff et de Vera Woulff, 1910, no. 31.
Special notice
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Margo Oganesian
Head of Department, Fabergé and Russian Works of Art