DUBOVSKOY, NIKOLAI (1859-1918) At Dawn , signed and dated 1910, also further signed, titled in Cyrillic and numbered ""10/103"" on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 107 by 134 cm. Provenance: Private collection, UK. Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert G. Churak. Authenticity has also been confirmed by the experts I. Shuvalova and S. Krivodenchenkov. Authenticity has also been confirmed by the expert V. Petrov. Exhibited: XXXIX vystavka Tovarishchestva peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok, Moscow, 1911, No. 39. Literature: Exhibition catalogue, XXXIX vystavka Tovarishchestva peredvizhnykh khudozhestvennykh vystavok, Moscow, 1911, p. 3, No. 39, listed. The celebrated landscape artist Nikolai Dubovskoy was born in Novocherkassk into a Cossack officer-class family from the Province of the Don Cossack Host. As a boy, Dubovskoy studied at the military school in Kiev, but his passion for art was so strong that he rose two hours early every day in order to draw. His headmaster advised the boy’s parents to send him to study painting. The 17 year-old Dubovskoy went to St Petersburg and to the Academy of Arts where, from 1877 to 1881, he studied under the professor of landscape painting, Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt. A landscape painter by calling and an adherent to the Itinerant tradition by conviction, Dubovskoy belonged to the younger Itinerant generation. Many anecdotes were told of his dedication to painting from life. It was even said that one day he was so engrossed in his sketching that he forgot his own wedding and when he finally appeared at the church everyone had almost given up waiting. The first time the young artist exhibited with the Itinerants was in 1884, and he was highly praised by both art critics and collectors. Furthermore, after this first exhibition Pavel Tretyakov acquired Dubovskoy’s painting Winter for his gallery. Many landscapes and seascapes were to follow, bringing the artist wide fame and promoting him to the top rank of Russian landscape artists concerned with conveying atmosphere. In 1900 Dubovskoy took part in the World Fair where he won a silver medal and exhibited at the Munich Secession, and in 1913 he received a gold medal for his picture After the Storm. The press was filled with praise for his pictures. One such, from Professor Vladimir Wagner read: “The picture was amazing, not for the artist’s technique (although this was impeccable) nor for his artistry (which was, however, obvious to all) but for the emotion, for the symphony we sensed within him, conveyed not in sounds but in the colours of his palette. The viewer was riveted to the picture, not by the picture itself but by what was in his heart.” The works of Nikolai Dubovskoy are on display in over 70 museums in both Russia and abroad.
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* A SILVER AND ENAMEL COMMEMORATIVE CIGAR CASE RUSSIAN, PARTIALLY OBLITERATED MAKERÂ’S MARK, POSSIBLY FOR IVAN KHLEBNIKOV BENEATH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1887, 88 STANDARD 12 by 8 cm. Of rounded rectangular form, the lid enamelled with an architecturaldrawing of the Hotel Continental on Neglinka in Moscow, designed byA. Beloyartsev and approved for construction by the Minister of Internal Affairs D. Tolstoy and dated 12th February 1887, the thumbpiece set with a cabochon ruby.
* A FABERGÉ SILVER-GILT AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL PHOTOGRAPH FRAME RUSSIAN, MAKERÂ’S MARK OF VICTOR AARNE IN CYRILLIC, ST PETERSBURG, 1899–1908, 84 STANDARD Diameter 13 cm. Circular, enamelled in translucent pale yellow over a wavy engine-turned ground within dash and pellet borders, applied with a bow-tied ribbon surmount, ivory back and silver scroll strut.
* A SILVER TANKARD RUSSIAN, MAKERÂ’S MARK OF SERGEI AGAFONOV IN CYRILLIC, MOSCOW, 1889, 84 STANDARD Height 16 cm. Of tapering form, the hinged lid with a dentil edge surmounted witha knopped finial, the square handle with plain thumbpiece, the bodychased with an arched-window shaped reserve with a traditionalembroidered towel over the window ledge and surrounded withfloral decoration, on three bracket feet, gilt interior.
A GROUP OF FIVE SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO VODKA CUPS AND BEAKERS AND A CREAMER RUSSIAN, VARIOUS MAKERS, MOSCOW, 1834–1841, 84 STANDARDS Height of a creamer 7.5 cm, height of a larger beaker 8.5 cm, of a smaller 4.5 cm. Provenance: Acquired by the grandfather of the current owner in the late 1920s–1930s. Thence by descent. Each cup and beaker with flared rims, gilt interiors and nielloed with foliate ornament, rural or military figures, the creamer rim cast with four shaped lips, the body nielloed with scrolling foliate motifs with scroll ivory handle.
A silver plated Cartier Vend“me ball pen, with fine bark textured finish, a sterling silver Tiffany propelling pencil with `T` clip, a silver gilt Dupont fountain pen with reeded barrel, circa 1975, a Dupont Laque de Chine and gold plated ball pen, and a Dunhill stainless steel and gold plated fountain and ball pen set
A silver snuff box, by Samuel Pemberton, Birmingham 1809, with engraved vine decorationCONDITION REPORT: Tarnished. Small dents throughout and to edges. Solder to exterior seams at both ends. Deterioration to gilding in interior, patches of surface loss. Splits to rims on eith side of cover.
A quantity of tortoiseshell and shagreen spectacle cases, containing silver folding spectacles, and a further tortoiseshell case CONDITION REPORT: Two shagreen cases, two tortoiseshell cases, one leather case, five pairs of spectacles, including three silver.Both shagreen cases have areas of loss. Both tortoiseshell cases and the spectacles have general wear.Additional images available on request. Three pairs are marked.
A Victorian silver vesta case, by George Unite & Sons, London 1862, of plain rectangular form, with integral wick attached with a chain, crested with gilt interior, 4.5cm wide, and a Victorian combination vesta and cigarette? case, by William Summers, London 1878, of rounded rectangular form, 50z
A Victorian silver mounted glass claret jug, by Hunt & Roskell, London 1891, the silver mounts with vacant cartouches, the domed hinged cover with flame finial and with leaf capped scroll handle, 25cm highCONDITION REPORT: Body probably not original and has large chip to foot rim. Seams visible running along bottoms of both vacant cartouches.
A quantity of George III and later silver old English pattern flatware, including a set of six table spoons by William Eley, William Fearn & William Chawner, London 1808, two sets of six dessert forks, and a soup ladle, London 1804CONDITION REPORT: Set of six dessert forks by John Harris, London 1828, monogrammed, and a set of seven by Eley and Fearn, London, 1804
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