View of Moscow, near Mossovet

Details

Aleksandr Gerasimov (1881-1963)
View of Moscow, near Mossovet
signed with Cyrillic initials and dated '47. AG.' (lower right)
pencil, gouache and watercolour on paper
20 x 25 ¼ in. (50.8 x 64.2 cm.)
Painted in 1947

Provenance

The family of the artist.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 June 2013, lot 40.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gerasimov: vystavka proizvedenii k 100-iiu so dnya rozhdeniya [centenary exhibition], 1881-1963, Moscow, 1981.
I. Blianova, Aleksandr Gerasimov, Moscow, 1988, illustrated and listed no. 118.

Exhibited

Moscow, The Academy of Arts of the USSR, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gerasimov: vystavka proizvedenii k 100-iiu so dnia rozhdeniia [centenary exhibition], 1881-1963, 1981.

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Lot Essay

Aleksandr Gerasimov (1881- 1963) was one of the leading artists in the Socialist Realism movement, the official prescribed canon of art in the Soviet Union. His oeuvre is permeated by Impressionist tendencies, wherein Gerasimov uses freely brushed strokes of colour to show the glimmering rays of light, as is especially evident in View of Moscow, Mossovet, which forms Gerasimov’s Moscow series painted in honour of Moscow’s 800 year anniversary in 1947. The Mossovet (a typical Soviet contraction) denotes the Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies, now known as the Moscow City Hall and is located on the famed Moscow boulevard Tverskaya ulitsa, number 13.

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