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Fanfare céleste
Details
NICOLAS KALMAKOFF (1873-1955)
Fanfare céleste
signed with the artist's monogram (upper left); further signed, inscribed with title and numbered 'No. 4/N. de Kalmakoff' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour and pencil on card
14 7⁄8 x 23 in. (38 x 58.3 cm.)
Executed in 1925
Fanfare céleste
signed with the artist's monogram (upper left); further signed, inscribed with title and numbered 'No. 4/N. de Kalmakoff' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour and pencil on card
14 7⁄8 x 23 in. (38 x 58.3 cm.)
Executed in 1925
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 13 June 1980, lot 442.
Carl Laszlo, Switzerland, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Carl Laszlo, Switzerland, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
J. Bowlt & Yu. Balybina, Nikolai Kalmakov i labirint dekadenstva [Nikolai Kalmakoff and the Labyrinth of Decadence], Moscow, 2008, p. 364 (illustrated p. 228; titled 'Triumphant Heavens' and dated '1915').
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Nicolas de Kalmakoff, January 1928, no. 66, p. 10.
Paris, Musée-galerie de la Seita, Kalmakoff. L'Ange de l'Abîme 1873-1955 et les peintres du Mir Iskousstva, March - May 1986, no. 55.
Paris, Musée-galerie de la Seita, Kalmakoff. L'Ange de l'Abîme 1873-1955 et les peintres du Mir Iskousstva, March - May 1986, no. 55.
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