Tsarina's cloister, the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, Zvenigorod

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Maria Iakunchikova (1870-1902)
Tsarina's cloister, the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, Zvenigorod
watercolour and gouache, with gum arabic in places, on paper laid down on card
5.5/8 x 7.7/8 in. (14.3 x 20 cm.)
and three other works on paper by the same artist: Forest in the moonlight, Balustrade and Interior with tea set

Provenance

The family of the artist.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

Tsarina's cloister, the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, Zvenigorod:
M. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 1979, listed p. 167.
M. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 2005, listed p. 143.
Interior with tea set:
M. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 1979, listed p. 177, medium incorrect.
M. Kiselev, Maria Iakunchikova, Moscow, 2005, listed p. 146, medium incorrect.

Exhibited

Balustrade:
Moscow, Posmertnaia vystavka Marii Vasil'evny Iakunchikovoi [Maria Vasil'evna Iakunchikova's posthumous exhibition], 1905.

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Lot Essay

The present work relates to a watercolour executed at the beginning of the 1890s and now held in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

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