Lusha

Details

FEDOT SYCHKOV (1870-1958)
Lusha
signed in Cyrillic and dated '1914./F. Sychkov' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper laid on board
26 5⁄8 x 20 7⁄8 in. (67.6 x 53 cm.)

Provenance

A gift to poet Aleksandr Prokofyev (1900-1971) in 1950.
Anonymous sale; Hagelstam & Co., Helsinki, 28 November 2020, lot 307.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, XXXIV vystavka kartin Imperatoskogo obshchestva russkikh akvarelistov [The XXXIV pictures exhibition of the Imperial Society of Russian watercolourists], Petrograd, 1915, listed p. 8, no. 55.
'Vystavka akvarelistov [Exhibition of watercolourists]', Iskry, no. 3, 18 January 1915, illustrated p. 19, no. 3.
O. Glebova, Obshchestvo russkikh akvarelistov 1880-1918 [The Society of Russian watercolourists 1880-1918], Moscow, 2018, illustrated and listed p. 361, no. 55.
L. Bukina and M. Surina (eds.), Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov. Memories. Correspondence, Saransk, 1998, listed p. 166, no. 236 (medium incorrect).

Exhibited

Petrograd, XXXIV vystavka kartin Imperatoskogo obshchestva russkikh akvarelistov v zalakh Imperatorskogo Obshchestva Pooshchreniia khudozhestv [The XXXIV pictures exhibition of the Imperial Society of Russian watercolourists in the halls of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts], 1915, no. 55.

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Lot Essay

The Soviet poet Aleksandr Prokofyev received the picture Lusha as a gift on his fiftieth birthday. Prokofyev wrote a letter dated 21 February 1951 to Fedot Sychkov telling the artist how how much he liked the picture. (Published in L. Bukina and M. Surina (eds.), Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov. Memories. Correspondence, Saransk, 1998, p. 84.)

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