SHISHKIN, IVAN (1832-1898) ◎ Afanasievsky Mast-Tree... Lot 6

SHISHKIN, IVAN (1832-1898) ◎ Afanasievsky Mast-Tree Grove Near Yelabuga, signed; further stamped on the reverse "Etiud Shishkina". Oil on canvas, laid on cardboard, 35.5 by 58.7 cm. Provenance: With K. Kaniewski i Ska, Warsaw (stamp on the reverse). Private collection, Carmel, California. Private collection, USA. Authenticity certificate from the expert N. Ignatova. Exhibited: Possibly, Vystavka kollektsii professora I.I. Shishkina i drugikh khudozhnikov, The Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, St Petersburg, 1906, no. 216 as Afanasievskаia roshcha. Literature: Possibly, Katalog vystavki kollektsii professora I.I. Shishkina i drugikh khudozhnikov, St Petersburg, The Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, 1906, listed under no. 216 as Afanasievskаia roshcha. Verso of the present lot. I. Shishkin, Study for Mast-Tree Grove, 1897, The State Russian Museum