Study for 'Moonlit night'

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Isaak Levitan (1860-1900)
Study for 'Moonlit night'
with inscription in Russian by Adolf Levitan 'This is the work of my late brother/A. Levitan 23 January 1901' (on the reverse)
oil on card
4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1899

Together with a rare and important book on Isaak Levitan, 4°, I. Levitan, 26 heliogravures, Berlin: Meizenbakh and Riffart, 1901; comprising 26 heliogravures, each covered by decorative tissue guard, the contemporary cloth binding with title stamp. (2)

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Lot Essay

The present work relates to Moonlit night, the oil painting Levitan completed in 1897, now held in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (see G. Burova (et al.), Tovarishchestvo peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok [The Society of Travelling Exhibitions], vol. I, Moscow, 1952, p. 214).

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