LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

54.33 in. (138.00 cm.) (height) by 108.46 in. (275.50 cm.) (width)

Literature:

T. Fedorova, 'Nikolai Samokish', Literatura i iskusstvo Kryma [Literature and Art of the Crimea], I, 1935, p. 77. Iu. Astakhov, Istoricheskaia kartina [The Historical Paintings], Moscow, 2008, illustrated p. 537, listed p. 536 no. 1519. N. Lapidus, 'The calling of the artist', Baltfort, no. 3 (20), September 2012, illustrated p. 60.

Provenance:

A gift from the artist to Jan Birzgal (1898-1968). A gift from the above to the family of a Latvian ballet dancer in Riga at the end of the 1960s. Acquired from the above by a collector in Riga in the 1970s. Acquired by the present owner in 2005.