$4,940
1873 oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm (24 x 19 3/4 in. ) signed in Cyrillic and dated lower left Aleksey Naumov was a celebrated Russian painter of genre scenes. Graduating from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1872, he was promoted in the Academy in 1873 for executing a live study for a portrait of a country tailor. The finished painting was also exhibited in London, where the artist was honored for it with a silver medal. Given that the present lot has the same date of creation, as well as subject matter, it is entirely possible that the medal-winning painting is the present lot. Coming from a private U. S. collection, this work could have been purchased at the of 1876 in Philadelphia, in which Naumov took part, also presenting his prominent works and
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2015-09-26