A fishing boat in Étretat, Normandy

Details

Vasilii Polenov (1844-1927)
A fishing boat in Étretat, Normandy
with faint inscription 'Normandie. Normanija travaildu professeur W. Dm. Polenoff. 1873 Vera Répine Kuokkala Penati 1938' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
4.1/8 x 7 in. (10.5 x 18 cm.)
Painted in 1874

Provenance

E. Miller, Finland.
Acquired from the above by Dr Vladimir Fiala (1922-1997) in Finland in 1930.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Russian Art, Prague, 1953, listed p. 22, no. 120.
V. Fiala, Vystavka ruskeho umeni v Narodni galerii [Exhibition of Russian Art in the National Gallery], Prague, 1953, listed p. 372.
V. Fiala, V. D. Polenov, Bratislava, 1956, illustrated p. 17, listed p. 25, no. 4.
V. Fiala, Russian landscapes in Czechoslovakian Collections, Moscow, 1970, illustrated p. 100, listed pp. 108-109.
V. Fiala, Russian Art in Czechoslovakian Collections, Leningrad,
1974, listed p. 93, no. 193.
Catalogue of the State Tretyakov Gallery: Paintings of the Second Half of the 19th Century, Moscow, 2006, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 91.

Exhibited

Prague, National Gallery, Russian Art, 1953, no. 120.

Brought to you by

Aleksandra Babenko

ababenko@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2489

Lot Essay

The present oil is a preparatory work for Polenov's masterful A fishing boat in Étretat in Normandie (1874, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
We are grateful to Dr Eleonora Paston of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow for her assistance in cataloguing the present lot.

More from Important Russian Art

View All