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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 26, 2014 | Bonhams | London | The Russian Sale | 33 | $****** - ****** | The gates of Tmutarakan, set design for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan | |||
Nov 26, 2008 | Christie's | London | Russian Pictures Part 1 | 257 | $****** - ****** | Set design for Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan: The Gates of Tmutarakan |
paintings
64 x 76.5 cm (25.2 x 30.12 in)
tempera on canvas
inscribed in Latin 'C.M.' for Corona Mundi International Art Centre and numbered '87' (on verso), stretcher with additional numbers
Louis Horch, New York, c. 1935.,Gift from the above to Sarah Lawrence College, New York, c. 1972.,Russian Pictures,
Christie's, London, 25 November 2008, lot 257.,
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, The Goupil Gallery, Nicholas Roerich. Spells of Russia, 1920, no. 141.,Worthing, The Public Art Gallery, Nicholas Roerich. Spells of Russia, 1920, no. 86.,New York, Kingor Gallery; Boston, Boston Art Club; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery; Chicago, Art Institute; St Louis, City Art Museum; San Francisco, Museum of Art; Denver, Art Association; Kansas, City Art Institute; Cleveland, Museum of Art; Indianapolis, Herron Art Institute; Minnesota, State Fair exhibition; Milwaukee, Art Institute; Detroit, Institute of Art; and elsewhere, The Nicholas Roerich exhibition, 1920-1923, no. 87.,New York, Nicholas Roerich Museum, Permanent Collection, 1923-1935, no. 87.In preparation for the production, Roerich completed more than twelve stage designs, sketches for the stage curtains and many costume drawings. Yet regretfully, the production remained unrealized due to financial difficulties. The artist's designs for the opera were first in London in 1920, and were later included in the grand exhibition of this works traveling across the United States in 1920-1923
N. Roerich, List of Paintings, 1917-1924, Nicholas Roerich Museum Archive, New York, listed as no. 11 under 1919.,Christian Brinton, The Nicholas Roerich Exhibition, New York, 1921, no. 87.,F. Grant et al., Roerich, Himalaya, New York, Brentano Publications, 1926, p. 197.,Roerich Museum Catalogue, New York, Roerich Museum, 1930, p. 15
