Landscape with a rainbow

Details

Konstantin Somov (1869-1939)
Landscape with a rainbow
signed in Cyrillic and dated 'K. Somov 1921' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on tin
4¼ x 5 7/8 in. (11 x 15 cm)

Provenance

Aleksei Alekseevich, a journalist for Morskoi Sbornik.
Acquired from the above by Vladimir Gil (1906-1971) in Leningrad, circa 1941.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, I. Pruzhan, Konstantin Andreevich Somov. K stoletiui so dnya rozhdeniya khudozhnika [To commemorate 100 years since the artist's birth], Leningrad, 1971, listed p. 89.

Exhibited

Leningrad, State Russian Museum, Konstantin Andreevich Somov. K stoletiui so dnya rozhdeniya khudozhnika [To commemorate 100 years since the artist's birth], 1971.

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Lot Essay

Vladimir Gil was a journalist, writing for numerous publications, including Morskoi Sbornik, the official publication of the Russian Navy, published to this day without interruption since 1848. Gil was always passionate about the ballet, and amassed a significant collection of archives and works of art relating to the subject, the majority of which he eventually gifted to the St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. The present work was acquired from a friend and fellow Morskoi Sbornik journalist Aleksei Aleskeevich in Leningrad circa 1941.

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