The kennels

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Georgii Savitskii (1887-1949)
The kennels
signed in Cyrillic and dated '1917/G. Savitskii' (lower left); further signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian and dated 'G. Savitskii/1917/The Kennels' (on the reverse)
oil on board
21 3/8 x 28¼ in. (54.3 x 71.4 cm.)
Painted in 1917

Provenance

Collection of M. A. Savitskaia (label on the reverse).

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Proizvedenii Savitskogo (posmertnaia)) (Works by Savitskii: A posthumous exhibition), Moscow, 1954, p. 64. E. Polischuk, Georgii Konstantinovich Savitskii, Moscow, 1961, illustrated p. 38, pp. 37, 39, 183.

Exhibited

Petrograd, Veseniaia vystavka Akademii Khudozhestv (Academy of Arts Spring Exhibition), 1917.
Moscow, Moscow Association of Artists, Proizvedenii Savitskogo (Works by Savitskii), 20 April 1941.
Moscow, USSR Academy of Arts, Proizvedenii Savitskogo (posmertnaia) (Works by Savitskii: A posthumous exhibition), 28 April 1954.

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Lot Essay

This oil was painted while Savitskii was living in Poltava, spending much of his time hunting with his fellow artist and friend Ivan Myasoedov (1881-1953): it is Myasoedov's yard, with its low wooden shed, which is depicted in the painting.

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