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340000 SEK

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80 000-120 000 SEK

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GRIGORII GRIGORIEVICH MYASOYEDOV
Ryssland 1834-1911
Porträtt av en skäggprydd bonde med en stav och tennkanna
Signerad och daterad 1898. Olja på duk, 107 x 71 cm.
Finskt tullmärke på spännramen.

PROVENANCE
Purchased by Maria Dirina and her husband the Swedish businessman Gösta Hellman (the grandparents of the present owners) in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. The Dirins were landowners who lived near Kharkov. Shortly after the revolution Maria Dirina met and fell in love with the Swedish Businessman Gösta Hellman. Her younger sister Olga, however, was suffering from tuberculosis, so Hellman married her and brought her to Stockholm for treatment. He then immediately divorced her, and returned to Russia to marry the woman he loved, Maria. He was working for SKF (a large Swedish company with business interests in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kharkov), and together the couple formed this collection of paintings, bringing them first to Helsinki and then finally to Stockholm when they settled there after the end of the Second World War.


Born in Tula into the family of minor gentry, Myasoyedov studied at the Imperial Academy under Neff and Markov. In 1862 he won the large gold medal there for his painting "The flight of Grigorii Otrepiev" (from Pushkin´s Boris Godunov), which is still preserved in the Museum of the Imperial Academy. He reached the status of full Academician in 1870 when he returned to Russia after some years spent in Europe, and then became a founding member of the Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers), and exhibited with them for the rest of his life. He is a leading exponent of the Wanderers´ art, using a highly technical, polished academic style to depict scenes from peasant life, of which the offered lot is an excellent example.

Auktionsnummer:

3236

Datum:

2016-12-08